CHENEY — Eastern Washington University has been named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, according to an announcement from the university.
The designation comes from the National Security Agency, the federal agency responsible for collecting foreign signals intelligence and protecting U.S. government communications and information systems.
“The CAE-CO designation is rare, difficult to earn, and serves as a national signal that an institution is equipped to produce graduates capable of working on some of the most sensitive and technically demanding cybersecurity challenges,” Associate Professor Stu Steiner, director of the EWU Cybersecurity Institute, wrote in the announcement…