By Patton Tran, Daily Titan
In an era when so much personal information floats through the Internet, protecting data has become a constant battle.
Cal State Fullerton
Those tasked with protecting passwords and credit card numbers of Internet users must play a game of wits to barricade information from malicious hackers.
As part of Security Day, the Computer Science Department at Cal State Fullerton addressed students Friday on the importance of security to help students pursue jobs in the field.
Mikhail Gofman, an assistant professor of computer science, laid out the plans for security for the school. “Our long-term objectives are to go beyond our security program,” he said.
Gofman discussed the goal to start a graduate and undergraduate major for cyber security, and introduce a minor degree in the same field, so that non-security majors can learn the coursework.
The department is working on making information security a requirement for the computer science major. Gofman thinks every computer science major should know about security when they are designing a system.
Through the planned major, Gofman hopes to become nationally recognized by the National Security Agency for education and as a research school.
In the United States, hacker groups are a constant threat. They have taken down major networks, and even compromised the Twitter account of President Barack Obama. Even the NSA itself has been in the news for exploiting the systems of major companies like Google and Facebook.
Michael Skroch is a strategic capabilities deputy at Sandia National Laboratories, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. that works with the government on defense and national security. He said we need to take another look on how to design security.
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