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Five Years of Success: Some Outcomes of the Carnegie Mellon Information Assurance Capacity Building Program Carol Sledge Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Daniel P. Manson California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Pomona, CA 91768 USA Anna Maria Berta Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Dena Haritos Tsamitis Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

Abstract: In July 2007 Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon®) hosted its sixth annual offering of the Information Assurance Capacity Building Program (IACBP). The goal of the intensive in-residence summer program is to help build Information Assurance education and research capacity at minority-serving universities. Since 2002, in the first 5 editions, over 45 faculty have participated in the month-long intensive program, which has resulted in the development of a number of new offerings at partner schools, including updates to existing courses, new courses, certificate programs and degree programs. Carnegie Mellon has also supported regional information assurance symposiums and mini-boot camps, additional information assurance grants, and a number of research projects and publications involving faculty and students at partner schools, as well as multi-institution collaborative centers. Throughout the planning and implementation the Carnegie Mellon IACBP goal has been on choosing faculty and university programs that are committed to information assurance curriculum development, teaching and research. As a result, a high level of success has been achieved by faculty and their programs. One example of this success is California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), which became a designated Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance in 2005. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the success of the IACBP and the experience of Cal Poly Pomona and subsequent designation as a CAE. A symposium recently brought back graduates of the IACBP to share outcomes. A recent survey was also conducted of IACBP attendees to document IA education, training and outreach activities. The results provide strong evidence of Carnegie Mellon IACBP successes.

Keywords: Faculty, Information Assurance, Information Systems Security, Information Systems Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Capacity Building

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Recommended Citation: Sledge, Manson, Berta, and Tsamitis (2008). Five Years of Success: Some Outcomes of the Carnegie Mellon Information Assurance Capacity Building Program. Information Systems Education Journal, 6 (61). http://isedj.org/6/61/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2007: §3543. ISSN: 1542-7382.)