About Us

TN CSEC is part of an 8 State Consortium of higher education institutions that are committed to improving the country’s information security infrastructure.  The Cyber Security Education Consortium is a National Science Foundation ATE Regional Center of Excellence dedicated to building an information security workforce who will play a critical role in implementing the national strategy to secure cyberspace.

By leveraging partnerships with other universities, two-year colleges, and career and technology centers, CSEC provides education and training opportunities major population centers in several states. The center is developing and disseminating information assurance and forensics curricula to two-year colleges, both regionally and nationally; offering professional development opportunities to instructors from two-year colleges and assisting them in building programs at their own institutions; and designing and implementing workforce development programs in information assurance and forensics, which contribute to economic development and the national homeland security effort.