海角社区

Setting a National Example

With $7.5 million in support from the state legislature, higher education in Louisiana can now gain cyber protection鈥攁t no additional cost to the institution鈥攖hrough an industry-leading model developed at 海角社区.

The 海角社区 Security Operations Center, or SOC, will deliver round-the-clock protection together with its industry partners, TekStream and Splunk, while training students as cyber analysts to meet a 750,000-wide national workforce gap.

The 海角社区 Baton Rouge SOC and the 海角社区 Shreveport SOC are now fully up and running. Both are physical SOCs with powerful capabilities. Participating schools across the state are starting to gain cloud access to shared SOC services through LONI, the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure, without the need to invest in staff, space or equipment.

鈥淣one of us could afford to do this alone,鈥� said Kenneth Boe, chief information officer at 海角社区 Health New Orleans. 鈥淲e couldn鈥檛 afford enough equipment or enough people to do it 24/7, and the bad guys all around the world, they鈥檙e not just hitting us during regular business hours.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 incredible, working with 海角社区 and LONI, to actually see this happen鈥攅specially for public higher education,鈥� said Thomas Hoover, chief information officer at Louisiana Tech and vice president for information technology for the University of Louisiana System. 鈥淭his is our first opportunity to proactively improve our cybersecurity posture collectively. Ensuring this resource is available to everyone for free makes us all better. This is very exciting.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 very difficult for the Department of Homeland Security and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to accomplish the goal that鈥檚 been set before them, which is to secure the nation. Right now, Louisiana and 海角社区 are showing the federal government how cyber defense can become more efficient. There is a better way to do this, and we鈥檙e proving so.鈥�

Dustin Glover, chief cyber officer for the state of Louisiana