# Presentation: 075143

## FISSEA

**IA Community Outreach**

- March               2005

**         ****Jeff Recor**
**        ****Director, IAC**

## Discussion Points

**Enhancing the Educational Experience**
**Nuts and Bolts**
**Example Clients**

## A Little Knowledge ...

**Symantec, 2004**

## Private Sector Viewpoint:

**Needs include:**
- Practitioners (technical)
- Analysts (non-technical)
- Management
**Method to properly evaluate experience and credentials**
**Certifications not representative of need**
**Experience, experience, experience**

## Academia Viewpoint:

**Need to create content that is current (valuable)**
**Need to enable students to compete for jobs in marketplace**
**Lack of instructors**
**Lack of textbooks**
**Lack of standards**
**Don’t want to compete with “boot camps” **

## The “Gap”

**Employers do not see academia producing security practitioners**
- Knowledge is still “theoretical”
- Additional training needed to make student “functional” after hiring
- Perception is that we produce “analysts”
**Academia not getting clear signals about needs from employers**
- No “connection point”
- Market data tough to come by

## Enhancing Educational Experience

**Walsh College addressed this “gap” by creating the IAC:  Information Assurance Center**
**Model is based on “pay” for services approach**
**Leverage students desire for “hands-on” with employers need for “bodies”**
**Managed like a profit center**
**Reporting structure supports mission**

## IAC Focus

**Information Assurance Center**
- Directs all efforts for IA at College
- Works by subscription model
- Offers faculty expertise, student projects and general assistance for subscribers
- Knowledge repository for all IA topics
- Lab facilities will be utilized for forensic and specialized client requests in conjunction with student needs

## Nuts and Bolts

**What does the IAC do:**
- Connects students with employers:
- Projects
- Research
- Direct employment
- Connects students with the community:
- Work with non-profits
- Help solve problems for citizens
- Support local professional organizations (ISSA, ISACA, etc)
- Presentations to K-12

## Nuts and Bolts

**Main goal is to share knowledge !**
_**[http://www.walshcollege.edu/pages/846.asp](http://www.walshcollege.edu/pages/846.asp)**__** **_

## Nuts and Bolts

**How does the IAC do it?**
- Support Structure
- Director, Assistant Director reports to President
- Separate financials
- Additional sales support (corporate services structure)
- Shared infrastructure (servers, web site, etc)
- Marketing
- Students create & maintain support infrastructure
- Created IAC knowledge repository
- Create client content
- Managed by professors

## Nuts and Bolts

**Financials**
- Revenue generation
- Three tiers of support
- Marketing support also allowed
- Can pay from $500 to $25,000 to “join”
- Marketing sponsorships cost $7,500
- Costs:
- Marketing
- Salaries
- Break-even model

## Nuts and Bolts

**Knowledge Repository**
- Information is tiered for sharing
- Non-members (everyone)
- Access depends on subscription level
- Clients consent...
- Students consent...
- Information collected from all sources
- Projects
- Capstones
- Individual assignments

## Colleges & Universities

**Colleges & Universities**

**Industry**

**Government**

**Certifying Bodies**

**Membership**

**Alliances**

**Articulation**

**Appointment**

## Infrastructure Support

**Newsletter**
**Global Threat Alert System**
**Knowledge repository**
**Security Job Portal**
**IAC Member Help Desk (email)**
**IAC member Chat**
**FBI Infragard Listserv**
**State of Michigan ISAC**

## Types of Activities

**Connecting Students with Employers:**
- Typical stuff
- Requests for research
- Requests for short term projects
- Requests for long term projects
- Not so typical stuff
- Work with FBI
- Help the Army with DITSCAP
- Private sector projects

## Examples of IAC Work

**Risk Assessment for Valassis**
**State of Michigan Employee training**
**THAW Fund Posture Review**
**Route One executive training**
**Budd Co Policy development**
**GM Hacking video**
**K-12 Cyber Awareness**

## Question and Answer

**Question and Answer**