The IT Security and Vulnerability program manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield in Boston, Massachusetts, Wayne Nordstrom, earned his BS in cybersecurity and digital forensics from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Wayne Nordstrom’s alma mater is a designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (NCAE-CD), a component of the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program.
The Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency (NSA) sponsors the NCAE-C program. The NSA’s National Cryptologic School manages the program with federal partners, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, and US Cyber Command.
The program aims to shepherd a participatory cybersecurity educational program with institutions of higher learning that sets yardsticks for academic excellence and cybersecurity curriculum, incorporates student and faculty competency development, and ardently participates in addressing issues confronting cybersecurity education. The promotion of expertise and higher education in cybersecurity intends to lessen vulnerability in the country’s national information infrastructure.
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