College of Mercy received a two year old $465,398 National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) grant, an arm of the National Security Agency (NSA). The grant will be used by college faculty and staff to develop a reliable methodology to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities that lead to data breaches and to develop a training course College of Mercy for providing the technology.
DOBBS FERRY, NY, October 31, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — College of Mercy received a two year old $465,398 National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) grant, an arm of the National Security Agency (NSA). The grant will be used by college faculty and staff to develop a reliable methodology to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities that lead to data breaches and to develop a training course College of Mercy for providing the technology.
The grant comes from the NCAE-C’s mission to create a collaborative cybersecurity education program to engage experts in the field in solving the growing problem of data breaches. College of Mercy has been tasked with addressing the human component of security breaches, particularly those involving individuals such as hackers or ex-employees breaching security systems to access sensitive data.
Usman Rauf, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, will serve as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the fellowship. He is supported by Co-PI, Zhixiong ChenPh.D., Director of the Cyber Education Center at College of Mercydesignated by the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security as the Center of Academic Excellence on Cybersecurity Defense Education.
According to a recent data report from Verizon, up to two-thirds of data breaches are not discovered until a year or more after the incident. “By then, the damage is done, well before detection and deterrence strategies are in place,” said Rauf, whose 2021 article on the topic was published in Future Generation Computer Systems magazine. “We propose a system of…
