海角社区S Hiring Students to Fight Cyberattacks, Gain Experience at On-Campus Center

February 16, 2024

Workers in cyber security lab

 

海角社区 Shreveport is helping address a workforce shortage in the cybersecurity industry while giving students a valuable opportunity for hands-on experience through a hiring program at the university's on-campus Security Operations Center.

The SOC is responsible for monitoring and analyzing 海角社区S鈥檚 network traffic to identify and respond to cybersecurity threats. In additional to the training benefits, employing students will also lower costs in protecting the university鈥檚 network.

鈥淓mployers today are looking exclusively for hands-on experience,鈥 said Ched Wiggins, Security Operations Center lead at 海角社区S. 鈥淲hat students can get here is experience dealing with alerts, analyzing malware, seeing what attacker trends are. You鈥檒l be developing the same skills needed to land a job in the industry.鈥

As part of its Scholarship First Agenda, 海角社区 is producing the leaders and cyber warriors who are essential to protecting our economy, critical infrastructure, people, and borders.