About Us

Despite enormous investment in the development of defensive cyber capabilities, we as a nation continue to lose ground against determined adversaries in the conflict for control in cyberspace. The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center is dedicated to combating adversaries who desire to harm our citizens, our government, and our industry through cyber-attacks. The Center seeks to advance the collective cybersecurity knowledge, capabilities, and practices, doing so through ground-breaking research, novel and innovative cybersecurity education, and mutually beneficial academic governmental and commercial partnerships. Working with researchers, faculty, and industry leaders, the Center stands committed to make outsized contributions to social good through the development of transformational cybersecurity capabilities.

TAMC² Areas of Focus

RESEARCH
Texas A&M University has an internationally renowned group of faculty who are engaged in groundbreaking cybersecurity research. The University, a premier land-grant institution, also benefits from having great facilities and fantastic students, which enable much of this impressive research portfolio. The combination of great faculty, great facilities and great students ensures that A&M will soon move to the very forefront of cybersecurity research and education.

EDUCATION
Texas A&M University has a long history of providing information assurance and cybersecurity educational opportunities for its students, dating back to the mid-1990s. Texas A&M students have an increasing number of opportunities available for acquiring cybersecurity knowledge and skills in order to prepare them for challenges they will face, upon graduation, in their personal and professional lives.

PARTNERSHIPS
The Cybersecurity Center will only achieve its vision by working with like-minded partners on problems of mutual interest and concern. Potential partners will come from a wide variety of entities, including other academic institutions, federal and local agencies and commercial partners. Our partnerships will focus on the broad application of the Center’s research, education and innovation for the public benefit.

Educational Offerings

Brief History of the Center

Present

In June, 2017, Texas A&M was designated by the National Security Agency as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations. Alongside the previous CAE designations in Education and Research, Texas A&M is one of eight universities to hold all three NSA distinctions.

2016

In March, 2016, TAMU was re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence, both in Education and in Research. These coveted distinctions align with the University’s mission to develop novel and innovative methods for cybersecurity education and to facilitate the conduct of ground-breaking, basic and applied cybersecurity research. More than 125 undergraduate students are enrolled for Fall 2016 in a newly created interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Minor field of study. And additional cybersecurity curricular offerings are currently

2015

The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center is established under the direction of Dr. Daniel Ragsdale to meet the increasing demands of society for secured information infrastructures and for a knowledgeable cybersecurity workforce. Soon after the Center’s establishment, it receives a $475K grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to advance the knowledge of the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures.

2010s

Since 2010, TAMU faculty have published over 95 scholarly works that document both the basic and applied cybersecurity research they have performed. Additionally, during this same period, 105 graduate students completed theses or dissertations that addressed cybersecurity topics.

2000s

Building upon the early achievements, the university undertook a significant number of cybersecurity education and research initiatives under the direction of a strong faculty. In 2002, TAMU was first designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and was subsequently designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research.

1990s

Texas A&M University (TAMU) has been dedicated to the advancement of cyber defense since the early 1990’s. At that time, in response to a large-scale network attack, TAMU researchers developed a collection of defensive capabilities that, through open source distribution, became industry standard in higher education for more than a decade. In the late 1990’s, TAMU was the first academic institution to employ attack-defense laboratory exercises to support undergraduate computer security instruction. This innovation has since been broadly embraced as an effective means to help students acquire cybersecurity knowledge and expertise.