With threats ranging from hacking a home-based personal computer to shutting down power grids or communication systems, the world wide computing community needs capable information security professionals to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their data.
NUCIA bridges the gap between education, research and practice to deliver knowledgeable personnel to the organizations that need them now.
IA professionals strive to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and their delivery systems in order to mitigate risk in the global IT infrastructure.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha has been named a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency (NSA).
- Develop information assurance professionals through degree, non-degree, and public information programs
- Conduct applied research that contributes to the theory and practice of information assurance
- Form strategic partnerships with external organizations, collaborating on both the theory and practice of information assurance
- Deliver world-class, broadly-based undergraduate, graduate, training, and information assurance
- Build a world-class team of faculty, students, and staff along with state-of-the-art laboratories
- Engage with strategic external partners
