- Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
- Department: Cybersecurity
- Direct: 540-231-6596
- Degree Programs: Engineering Minor in Cybersecurity, BS in Computer Engineering – Cyber Operations Track, BS in Computer Engineering – Major in Networks and Cybersecurity, BS/MS Program – CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, CyberLeaders Program, MS and PhD in Computer Science with Cybersecurity Track, MEng, MS, and PhD in Computer Engineering with Cybersecurity Track, Masters of Information Technology with Cybersecurity Tracks (Online), Graduate Certificate in Information Assurance Engineering
- Key Contact: Charles Clancy, Co-Director & Virginia Tech Site Director, S2ERC
- Research Areas: Cyber-Physical System Security; Cybersecurity Policy and Governance; and, Wireless Communications and Networking Security.
- Other Work: Samsung, Airbus, CACI, Harris, SAIC, LGS Innovations, Northrop Grumman, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Wikipedia link: Virginia Tech-Wikipedia
- Website: Virginia Tech
Program Overview:
Virginia Tech offers multidisciplinary opportunities in cybersecurity education and research, with participating faculty from the departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Political Science, and Business. With its strong engineering and science focus, Virginia Tech offers deeply technical undergraduate and graduate programs in cybersecurity, and our faculty conduct world-class research in information security, network security, hardware security, and software security. Centers such as the Hume Center for National Security and Technology researches defense and intelligence applications of cyber attack and defense. The IT Security Lab, part of the university’s CIO organization, is able to use the university’s production network as a teaching hospital for cybersecurity.
More than 1,000 companies sell cybersecurity products to electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada. This project is designed to organize and evaluate these vendors, and their products and services, to make it easier for utility companies to make informed decisions on products that meet their specific cybersecurity needs.
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Protect Our Power has identified more than 80 topics related to Best Practices for Cybersecurity Solutions. For each topic, we will provide a short overview, a list of the vendors who provide products or solutions that address that topic, and a link to the university or universities evaluating those vendor offerings.
Universities, colleges and research labs are conducting valuable research on vendor product offerings and solutions that address a broad range of cybersecurity issues and challenges. The results of these analyses are published here and will be updated as new information becomes available.
More than 1,000 suppliers and vendors provide hardware and software solutions to the utility industry to address cybersecurity issues and threats. Those vendors are listed here, grouped according to the cybersecurity topic that their product offerings address.