WVU a National Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure
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As written about previously at WVU to Perform Cybersecurity Work on Skypunch, WVU (West Virginia University) regularly performs various red team exercises against the Skypunch Technology online voting system. Less than a year after that activity began, I am happy to report that in partnership with the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN) and U.S. Cyber Command, West Virginia University is establishing a National Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure. WVU is not alone in this initiative as Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia (roughly 208 miles from the WVU campus in Morgantown), is also playing a prominent role by establishing an Information Technology and Operational Technology Security Operations Center and Collaborative Cyber Resiliency Laboratory on its campus. A third university, West Virginia State University—with its campus less than an hour from the Marshall campus—collaborates with Marshall on such things making this a statewide undertaking as much as it is one that belongs to any single university and further solidifies the state of West Virginia’s burgeoning reputation as the home of cybersecurity research and innovation.
All of this amounts to a win not just for the nation’s critical infrastructure but for Skypunch clients who may use the system with the peace of mind that comes from knowing they’re using one of the most rigorously audited voting systems in the world.
This is a collaborative effort reliant on cooperation among the universities, JFHQ-DODIN and private industry partners. Skypunch is grateful to have been one of the earliest of those industry partners and looks forward to continuing the partnership well into the future.
For more information:
- JFHQ-DODIN, Marshall University, West Virginia University partner to establish a National Center of Excellence for Cyber Security in Critical Infrastructure
- Marshall University and partners establish a National Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure to be located in West Virginia
- Joint Force Headquarters – Department of Defense Information Network
- United States Cyber Command
