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Partnerships - Industry and Government

Our Information Security and Intelligence (ISI) program has academic partnerships with numerous cybersecurity vendors and other technological solution providers.

These academic partnerships help to bridge the gap between academia and industry by allowing students to gain hands-on experience using best-of-breed enterprise-grade solutions. Furthermore, these partnerships help us to address the cybersecurity talent gap head-on by giving students opportunities to acquire skills and experience using the same tools, tactics, and techniques used in the industry.

ISI is very grateful for the generosity and support of our partners and their help in training the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Enterprise and Industry Partners

ANY.RUN Interactive Sandbox

Any.Run

Interactive online malware analysis service for dynamic and static research of most types of threats using any environment. ANY.RUN community analyses an average of 6000 files and websites every day. Among our users, there are individual researchers, businesses, corporations, security departments, CERTs, CIRTs, SOCs, and IRs and those, for whom automatic sandbox is not enough.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Academy

AWS

AWS Academy enables diverse education institutions to deliver curriculum and hands-on learning experiences to prepare students for employment in cloud roles.

Authentic8

Authentic8

The world’s most at-risk organizations rely on Authentic8 to eliminate the risk of using the web. More than 500 government agencies and commercial enterprises trust Authentic8’s cloud-based Silo Web Isolation Platform to separate the things they care about — like apps, data and devices — from the things they can’t trust — like external websites, users and unmanaged devices.

Cellebrite Forensic  

Celebrite

Cellebrite’s Digital Intelligence Platform: the only end-to-end digital forensics solution Discover the relevant evidence you need. Break down barriers, reduce case cycle times. Get insights you can trust and close more cases.

Cisco Networking Academy

Cisco

Cisco Network Academy is a global IT and cybersecurity education program that partners with learning institutions around the world to empower all people with career opportunities. It is Cisco’s largest and longest-running Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility program.

Check Point SecureAcademy™

Check Point SecureAcademy

Check Point SecureAcademy™ provides worldwide cyber security education for free through partnerships with higher learning institutions and nonprofit organizations. Collaboration with with Check Point's Academy help to equip today’s students with the vital technology skills they need to secure our future!

Clearwater Compliance 

Clearwater

Protecting sensitive information and patient safety require knowing where your exposures are. Our complete enterprise cyber risk management solution begins with the most comprehensive, industry-proven risk analysis available as demonstrated by a 100% OCR-acceptance rate.

Cloudshark Academy

Cloudshark 

An on-premises collaboration platform focused on packet analysis for networking teams. CS Enterprise delivers secure storage, organization, user and group access control, and elegant, powerful analysis tools all through a web interface enabling packet analysis from any device.

CompTIA Academy

Comp TIA

CompTIA’s Academy Partner Program provides valuable tools and resources to assist schools in recruiting, training, certifying and upgrading the skills of their students in IT. CompTIA’s Academy program is designed to help schools promote certification and enhance student career opportunities.

Consortium Networks

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Consortium Networks is the trusted Cyber Concierge that helps our clients solve their toughest cybersecurity challenges. We are a cybersecurity risk, technology, and networking organization on a joint mission to connect and educate the community.

EC-Council Accredited Training Center 

EC Council

EC-Council Accredited Training Centers (ATC) are a network of global training centers that offer up-to-date training, testing, and credentialing services, accredited by EC-Council, to meet international training and credentialing standards.

HUNCHLY

Hunchly

The Web Capture Tool Designed For Online Investigations. Never forget to screenshot again. Hunchly automatically collects, documents, and annotates every web page you visit.

IACIS (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists) 

IACIS

IACIS is a non-profit, volunteer organization wholly dedicated to training, certifying, and providing membership services to computer forensic professionals around the world. Formed in 1990, IACIS has enjoyed steady international growth as it has matured into a well-respected professional organization of international acclaim.

IBM Security Learning Academy 

IBM

Security skills are in high demand and short supply, and organizations around the world are feeling the pain. Many have invested in IBM Security solutions and have all of the necessary tools to prevent and manage cybersecurity threats, but struggle to optimize them without experienced staff.

(ISC)² International Academic Program

ISC2

(ISC)² works with academic and higher education institutions around the world to support their cybersecurity curriculum development, teaching and course creation initiatives for cyber, information, infrastructure, and software security.

LogRhythm

LogRhythm

LogRhythm is a world leader in NextGen SIEM, empowering organizations on six continents to successfully reduce risk by rapidly detecting, responding to, and neutralizing damaging cyberthreats.

Nagios Academy

Nagios

Nagios Enterprises delivers official products, services, and solutions for and around Nagios® – the industry standard in enterprise-grade IT infrastructure monitoring. With millions of users worldwide, Nagios is the undisputed champion in the IT monitoring space.

Maltego

Maltego

Maltego is a software used for open-source intelligence and forensics. Maltego focuses on providing a library of transforms for the discovery of data from open sources and visualizing that information in a graph format, suitable for link analysis and data mining.

National Cyber League 

National Cyber League

The NCL is a defensive and offensive puzzle-based, capture-the-flag style cybersecurity competition. Its virtual training ground helps high school and college students prepare and test themselves against cybersecurity challenges that they will likely face in the workforce.

National Cyberwatch Center 

National Cyberwatch

National Cyberwatch Center supports the national imperative for developing cybersecurity-educated professionals by providing educational, networking, and collaborative opportunities for faculty and their institutions; to foster evidenced-based practices among the membership by providing software platforms and data that support collaboration, and to assist in the collection of data that can be used by all member schools as they create their cybersecurity organizational strategic plans.

Palo Alto Cybersecurity Academy

Palo Alto 

The Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Specialization prepares students for entry-level careers in cybersecurity, with an emphasis on administering the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall. All courses also map learning objectives to the U.S. NIST/NICE framework and cybersecurity work roles.

Pearson VUE Testing Center 

Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE offers innovative computer-based testing solutions through secure, electronic test delivery. Pearson VUE provides licensure and certification exams for Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, Oracle, HP, GMAC, NCLEX, FINRA, ASCP, DANB, and many more.

PMI (Project Management Institute)

PMI

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s leading association for those who consider project management or portfolio management their profession.

Project Plan 365

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The Project Plan 365 application offers planning and scheduling capabilities, intuitive Gantt-Chart visualization, and more during Project Management courses. Our students gain hands-on experience with Project Plan 365, preparing them for real-world project management.

PYthon Institute

Python In.

The Python Institute is an independent non-profit project venture set up, run, and managed by OpenEDG, the Open Education and Development Group, to promote the Python programming language, train a new generation of Python programmers, and support professional careers in programming in Python and related technologies.

Red Hat Academy

Red Hat

Red Hat Academy turns academic institutions into centers for enterprise-ready talent by outfitting them with Red Hat training and certification.

ShadowDragon

ShadowDragon

ShadowDragon architects cyber intelligence solutions that reveal threat information to organizations, enabling them to stop and attribute targeted actions of malicious actors in the physical or digital world. These solutions monitor and analyze data from proprietary threat databases, the Internet and the dark web. ShadowDragon solutions are used by hundreds of businesses, intelligence and law enforcement organizations around the world. The company is based in the United States.

VMware IT Academy

VMware IT Academy

VMware® IT Academy empowers educational institutions to teach relevant, in-demand digital skills for a multi-cloud world to their students.

Our Government Partners

Department of Defense cyber crime Center (DC3)

Department of Defense-Cyber Crime Center, DC3 Academic Cyber Curriculum Alliance - National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence

The National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) is a partnership between  academia, standards bodies, and the US Government to establish best practices for digital forensics education. Education providers are held to digital forensics education standards based upon knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) used in the field. This approach advances the discipline of digital forensics and increases the number of qualified professionals to meet the needs of law enforcement, counterintelligence, national defense, and legal communities.

National Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE)

CAE

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) program. The goal of the program is to reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in cyber defense and producing professionals with cyber defense expertise.

National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE)

DOD

The National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) is a partnership between academia, standards bodies, and the US Government to establish best practices for digital forensics education. Education providers are held to digital forensics education standards-based upon knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) used in the field.

National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

CAE

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) program. The goal of the program is to reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in cyber defense and producing professionals with cyber defense expertise

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)

Nice

NICE is a partnership between government, academia, and the private sector focused on supporting the country’s ability to address current and future cybersecurity education and workforce challenges through standards and best practices.