China Wants To Replicate NSA’s Cyber Schools

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http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/09/china-wants-replicate-nsas-cyber-schools/94475/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov
Sept 18, 2014

Chinese universities are welcome to adopt the U.S. National Security 
Agency’s cyber education program, the top U.S. computer security education 
official said, after a recent trip to Beijing.

Entrepreneurs in China have voiced support for improving the notoriously 
spotty relations between the U.S. and China in cyberspace by patterning 
Chinese courses on NSA-approved curricula, said Ernest McDuffie, head of 
the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.

The offer of shared cybersecurity training comes at a time when both 
countries are exchanging accusations of hacking each other’s trade 
secrets. Both parties have denied these allegations.

“It’s not like we’re giving away some deep, dark secret that they didn’t 
know before,” McDuffie said during an interview. “And it gives you the 
chance to put ethics into the mix.”

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