Increasing Number of Universities Offer NSA-Approved Training

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The National Security Agency (NSA), through the National INFOSEC Education and Training Program (NIETP), identifies 75 universities that conform to its standard for acceptable programs in information security today. Criteria for that determination are derived from recommendations of the National Security Telecommunications and Information System Security Committee (NSTISSC). Since there are nearly 4,000 institutions of higher education in the United States (NCES, 2002), this is not particularly impressive until you consider the fact that six years ago, less than one percent of US universities offered recognized programs in information security. In that respect, the growth in the number of institutions represented on the list is amazing progress.

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