LSU’s Student-Powered SOC Gives Students Hands-On Cybersecurity Experience

Summary

LSU’s CIO describes a student-powered SOC run with Tech Stream, where students help mitigate real threats while gaining experience. He says students detected and escalated a live threat at an unnamed school.

Key points

• LSU’s CIO says the university created a student-powered SOC in partnership with Tech Stream.
• Students work alongside Tech Stream to mitigate threats affecting LSU, other schools in the state, and private businesses.
• Applicants need at least a year of school remaining; the CIO says IT experience is not required because students are trained after selection.
• Students receive a report card documenting incidents solved, audit scores, and SLA performance.
• The CIO says every program graduate found a job right away; this is his account of the program’s outcomes.
• The CIO says students detected and escalated a live threat at an unnamed school, and that he was told it could have brought the school down.

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