Naval Academy Expands on Cyber Security

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http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-news/naval-academy-expands-on-cyber-security.html

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alexia Riveracorrea
Navy News
September 07, 2011

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The new academic year marks the beginning of the Naval 
Academy's new cyber security curriculum, in which midshipmen are 
required to take classes that will enhance their knowledge of cyber 
warfare and the threat it poses to national security.

Discussion of building a cyber curriculum at the academy began several 
years ago, when the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) explained the 
importance of cyber security to the fleet, said Capt. Steven Simon, 
director of the academy's Center for Cyber Security Studies.

"The Department of Defense and the CNO identified cyber as an area that 
is critically important to all naval officers," said Simon. "When 
midshipmen get commissioned and go out into the fleet, whether they are 
standing on watch on a submarine, on the bridge of a surface ship, 
attached to an squadron or in the field, the decisions they have to make 
will be partly influenced by how the cyber domain impacts their ability 
to conduct their mission. These courses are meant to give them a 
foundation in cyber education."

Once the CNO put out the message, the academy initiated an examination 
of cyber security, and how it should become a part of the curriculum at 
the naval academy, explained Associate Professor Christopher Brown of 
the computer science department.

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