A free workshop for researcher-facing cybersecurity professionals sponsored by the ResearchSOC and National Science Foundation December 8-10, 2020, virtually via Zoom and Slack (US Pacific Standard Time) Registration for the December workshop is closed. We thank the community for the overwhelming response! Please complete the form to be waitlisted and/or provide us your input on an… Read more »
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OmniSOC to participate in $2.25 million CyberCorps student scholarship program
Students will gain experience via internships with Indiana University‘s cybersecurity organizations, including OmniSOC . The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Indiana University a $2.25 million grant to establish a scholarship program in the growing and critical field of cybersecurity on the Bloomington campus. The goals of the NSF’s CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program are aligned with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to… Read more »
Inaugural internship program changes students’ futures
By Virgil Giles and Greg Moore This summer, OmniSOC began its inaugural eight-week summer internship program, hosting 10 students from IU, Rutgers University, and the University of Nebraska system. The internship program started on the Bloomington campus, where students spent four weeks becoming acquainted with operations at all levels. They finished out the experience at… Read more »
OmniSOC wins 2019 Campus Technology Impact Award
Campus Technology, one of higher education’s top online information sources, has announced that the IU-led OmniSOC has been selected as the 2019 Campus Technology Impact Award winner in the IT Infrastructure and Systems category. OmniSOC is a shared, 24x7x365 cybersecurity operations center for higher education. OmniSOC is a pioneering initiative that helps reduce the time from first… Read more »
Training tomorrow’s cyber warriors: OmniSOC rolls out summer internship program
This summer, OmniSOC began its inaugural eight-week summer internship program, hosting 10 students from IU, Rutgers University, and University of Nebraska—Lincoln. The internship program started on the Bloomington campus, where students spent four weeks becoming acquainted with operations at all levels. They finished out the experience at their home institutions, working with their local IT… Read more »
First-of-its-kind higher education joint cyber security operations center launches
OmniSOC at Indiana University protects five universities, hundreds of thousands of devices and tens of thousands of students and faculty from cyber threats. Indiana University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have announced the launch and activation of OmniSOC, a specialized, sector-based cyber security operations center, or SOC, that provides… Read more »