Facing rising cyber threats and a nationwide talent shortage, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has partnered with the cybersecurity company TekStream to launch a student-run Security Operations Center (SOC).
The SOC will double as both a money-saving security apparatus for the university and a workforce development initiative, giving students access to security technology from the software company Splunk, as well as hands-on experience in a real-world SOC environment, according to a news release this week.
With a student population of over 13,000 and a campus workforce of more than 2,000, NJIT sought a partner to meet the challenge of managing cybersecurity with limited resources. The news release said running an SOC entirely in-house with students wouldn’t have been feasible, due to what is required of analysts and the impracticality of relying on students to manage around-the-clock operations.
