National Science Foundation (Oct. 30) -- Responding to the need for a cybersecurity workforce prepared to deal with today's complex problems is a National Science Foundation's CyberCorps®: Scholarships for Service (SFS)project for undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The project has graduated 25 students who are already working in government (reflecting another 100 percentage placement rate), and another 20 are set to graduate next May. Since last year, this project offers scholarships to law students as well as engineering and computer science students. According to PI Roy Campbell, few lawyers understand cybersecurity and few computer scientists understand the legal framework involved in prosecuting and preventing cyber crimes.
Cybersecurity
10/30/2014