Commodore, here is what you are looking for:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/institutions.shtml and google: information assurance scholarship program.
Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, James Madison, George Mason are just some of the Universities that have a very strong IA/CND/CNA program...
Telecommunication Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering provide a solid B.S. for this field but please note, that most of these classes will be dominated by our foreign friends.
As a worker bee in this field, we need folks that have time in a seat looking at packets, writing custom protocol filters-IDS/IPS, using correlation tools such as ArcSite or MARS (etc!), performing flow analysis, writing extended ACL's, and staying on top of the open source tool (e.g., Bro, Argus) etc....
CISSP's are nice, especially the one's that put it in their email... Our CyberCorp's does not need to consist of more policy "accreditation" and "managerial Information Assurance" types, but REAL engineers that understand packet analysis and have a diverse background on all critical monitoring stacks.
Even with these degree's, it takes time to understand the network and the tools of the network you are working on. There are very few large networks that these CYBER CORP engineers will be able to grow and establish their skill sets on (another big picture problem), as when the annual budgets come down to the folks that actually do the monitoring, the same security and network monitoring that is supposed to be the backbone of the network, is falling apart at the seems.
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Commodore, here is what you are looking for: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/institutions.shtml and google: information assurance scholarship program. Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, James Madison, George Mason are just some of the Universities that have a very strong IA/CND/CNA program... Telecommunication Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering provide a solid B.S. for this field but please note, that most of these classes will be dominated by our foreign friends. As a worker bee in this field, we need folks that have time in a seat looking at packets, writing custom protocol filters-IDS/IPS, using correlation tools such as ArcSite or MARS (etc!), performing flow analysis, writing extended ACL's, and staying on top of the open source tool (e.g., Bro, Argus) etc.... CISSP's are nice, especially the one's that put it in their email... Our CyberCorp's does not need to consist of more policy "accreditation" and "managerial Information Assurance" types, but REAL engineers that understand packet analysis and have a diverse background on all critical monitoring stacks. Even with these degree's, it takes time to understand the network and the tools of the network you are working on. There are very few large networks that these CYBER CORP engineers will be able to grow and establish their skill sets on (another big picture problem), as when the annual budgets come down to the folks that actually do the monitoring, the same security and network monitoring that is supposed to be the backbone of the network, is falling apart at the seems.