Academic Partnership
Academic Partnership
CIISec collaborates with leading universities in the field of information, cyber security and digital investigations to promote the growth of the profession and to provide career paths for those individuals who are the future of cyber security and law enforcement. Our Academic Partnership provides an opportunity for CIISec and academic institutions to collaborate and ensure the effective promotion of information security professionalism to staff and students.
The award of Academic Partner status aims to recognise the significant base of security-related expertise and activity that exists within academic institutions and to encourage and enable a dialogue between academia and the wider community of security practitioners. Being an Academic Partner of CIISec shows the rest of the industry that their courses have achieved a course accreditation that meets the industry’s high standard.
Academic Partner Benefits
Benefits of Academic Partnership:
- Listing of partner details, logo and the course details on the CIISec website
- Opportunity to use the Partner status (including the CIISec name and logo) when promoting the Partner’s security activity.
- The opportunity to award an annual CIISec Student of the Year Prize to a student of your choice-who will then go on to be nominated in our National Fred Piper Award.
- Chance to provide features for our monthly Student Newsletter highlighting academic news and successes.
- Access to an optional student membership programme, enabling a cohort of named students to be registered as CIISec members for a single annual fee of £250.
- Opportunity to host a CIISec Career Development Event giving your students access to a world-class speaker track and networking with prospective employers (you provide the venue, CIISec provides the speakers).
- Create connections with the wider Cyber Security community.
- 50% discount on CIISec individual membership for academics based at the partner institution (note: being a partner institution does not require academics to be CIISec members).
Academic Partners are expected to:
- Advocate the need for professionalism within the security industry.
- Promote their Academic Partner status as part of related marketing activities.
- Encourage CIISec accredited membership amongst staff and student membership for those studying.
- Provide support to regional CIISec activities via our Community Hubs (e.g., publicising to staff and students, or hosting local events).
- Host annual regional seminars.
Register a Cohort of Students
Each academic year our Academic Partners are offered access to an optional student membership programme. This enables the organisation to register a cohort of named students, on any cyber security, information or digital investigation related courses, to be registered as CIISec members for a single annual fee of £250. This helps encourage their students to become members without having to pay a £20 student membership.
If you represent an Academic partner and would like to take up the offer or if you are a student that would like to check whether your University has taken up the offer please contact development@ciisec.org.
Student Membership Offer:
- Develop your network and make contacts within the cyber security community.
- Attend events including our annual conference (CIISec Live), Career Development Events
- Student Champion.
- Author or contribute articles for CIISec Pulse Magazine - Publish your final year research.
- Chance to become a CIISec Student of the year; each year our Academic Partners award this prize to a student of their choice. This student then goes on to be nominated into CIISec’s National Fred Piper Award.
- Receive our student newsletter.
Prerequisites For CIISec’s Academic Partnership
The award of Academic Partner status equates to CIISec recognition that a given institution has a credible academic presence in the security domain, evidenced by a tangible level of security expertise and related activity amongst their academic staff base. Therefore, there are some indicative factors that must be met to be eligible for the partnership.
- Must run a selection of Cyber Security/Digital Investigation related courses
- Staff holding academic qualifications or professional certifications relating to information security (Note: For staff who are not Full Members of CIISec, you will be asked to provide CV’s with relevant details)
- Must have at least three staff members linked to the security topic area
- Other evidence of active engagement in the domain (e.g. membership of related conference committees, journal boards, working groups, etc)
In addition to having industry related staff, an Academic Partner is expected to demonstrate a tangible level of teaching and other academic engagement within the security domain. Indicative factors here would include:
- Offering taught programmes (or a significant number of themed modules) in information security
- Involvement in organising/hosting related events.
Our Academic Partners
Apply for academic partnership
Join our academic partnership and enrich your institution’s cyber and digital investigation offerings.
From our current academic partners:
Cardiff MET is delighted to be recognised by CIISec as an academic partner who has a significant base of security-related expertise and activity. This will also provide an opportunity to engage with information security professionals and a clear career progression pathway to our staff and students
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Chaminda Hewage, Associate Dean Research - Cardiff School of Technologies
This is a significant milestone for our university. Joining hands with the Chartered Institute of Information Security is a testament to our commitment to academic excellence. Exciting times ahead!
University of Strathclyde
Jide Edu, Lecturer
