Continue Your Education in Cybersecurity!

Richland College is one of 14 community colleges selected to provide an associate degree program in Digital Forensics through the Cyber Security Education Consortium, funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The consortium oversees programs at two-year colleges in Oklahoma and surrounding states that prepare students for immediate job readiness or further education at the University of Tulsa’s Center for Information Security.

Established in 1996, the University of Tulsa’s Center for Information Security (CIS) has emerged as a leader in cybersecurity education and research. The center spans the university’s colleges of engineering, arts and sciences, business administration and law. It has collaborative relationships with several federal agencies, and its faculty and students provide advice to state and local governments on cybersecurity legislation, helping to create security policies and procedures, and performing vulnerability assessments for homeland IT systems. The center also offers certificate programs in information security at all federal training levels.

The University of Tulsa is a regional center for Advanced Technological Education (ATE), which provides programs focusing on two-year colleges to provide education for high-tech fields driving the nation’s economy.

The Center for Information Security (CIS) is a lead institution in the Cyber Corps initiative, which trains elite squadrons of computer security experts to form the country’s first line of defense against global cyberthreats. The Cyber Corps program is open to college students in their junior year or first year as graduate students and covers two years of tuition, room and board, travel and more.

After one year of training, students complete a summer internship in a federal agency, learning first-hand about computer security issues and putting into practice what they’ve learned. By the end of their second year, undergraduates earn a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and graduate students earn a master’s degree in computer science; all will have multiple federal-level computer security certificates as endorsed by the Committee on National Security Systems.

If you’re interested in continuing your education in the cutting-edge field of cybersecurity, contact Digital Forensics Program Coordinator Zoltan Szabo to find out more about transfer and scholarship opportunities. Please visit the Transfer Services Web site for additional guidance on the transfer process.