Fanshawe College and JAMK University have entered a partnership aimed at tackling cyber attacks. This partnership will offer resources to students that will give a hands-on experience to combat a variety of cyber threats.
“Our Dean was at a conference called the European Association for International Education and met our finished Partners there and they invited her to come and visit the university and we started some discussions around what they’re doing, what we’re doing here in terms of cyber security and the capabilities and that aligned with the direction we were taking our school, so they broached the idea of a partnership and we jumped at the opportunity,” says Dev Sainani, the Associate Dean to the School of Information Technology.
The tech space, called a cyber range, acts as a safety net for students to experiment with cyberattacks in a separate closed-off space to enhance their skills.
“A cyber range is a model a simulation of the real internet in a sectioned off-court and off area called The Sandbox. So whatever happens within the Cyber range itself does not get out into the public domain so you can build a simulation of the internet and you can attack it can you can introduce all sorts of threats and threat actors into the simulation and you can see how the system will respond and how to defend against it” says Sainani
The end goal of the partnership is to equip graduates with a wide variety of cyber defence skills that can be applied to different sectors with specific needs security needs.
“We are part of a Global Network that our partners have established in Finland and what they have been doing over the last maybe 10 years is to build several domain specific areas so they have models that are based on the healthcare system., the food chain or, the travel and transportation Logistics building out those capabilities and then we can to build out any other capabilities that we see fit and contribute that as part of our contributions to the overall network,” says Sainani
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