In 2008 the Naval Postgraduate School was certified as a Center of Academic Excellence in IA Research (CAE-R) and re-certified as a Center of Academic Excellence in IA Education (CAEIAE). NPS awards the following NSTISSI and CNSS certificates.

NSTISSI 4011
National Training Standard for Information System Security (INFOSEC) Professionals

CNSSI 4012
National Information Assurance Training Standard for Senior System Managers

CNSSI 4013
National Information Assurance Training Standard for System Administrators

CNSSI 4014
National Information Assurance Training Standard for Information System Security Officers

NSTISSI 4015
National Training Standard for Information Systems Certifiers

"The WECS7 Conference was Excellent."

"I learned a lot during the week. There were excellent seminars; from Jide Odubiyi's Attack Modeling to Matt Bishop's talk onTeaching Assurance to Dan Warren's comprehensive treatise of security. I was impressed with CyberCIEGE and we may have interest from our students in assisting on the project for their Capstone project - both from a programming effort as well as the scenario and storyline perspective. Insights to The Center of Academic Excellence Program and Shiva's seminar on Undergraduate Computer Security Education were very helpful for us in aligning our computer science courses with security prerequisites for a CS degree.

Bottom line - all the hard work you did along with your colleagues made it a valuable and successful conference. Please pass my appreciation on to Dr. Irvine. - it was time very worthwhile."
- Michael Yee, CSUMB, WECS7 Attendee

As the Department of Defense becomes increasingly dependent on computers, electronic INFOSEC becomes even more important. And with technology advancing rapidly, protecting classified information from compromise becomes a significant challenge. That's where a handful of Computer Science Department professors and students come in, researching new ways to provide security for the latest computer technology...