Cybersecurity – Hackers get a home at the University of Montana

If all goes as planned, next year the University of Montana will unveil a "Cyber Innovation Laboratory" that looks something like a scene from a high-tension television drama. But instead of actors, the lab will host aspiring student hackers and forensic technicians learning the technical skills they’ll need to navigate the modern age.

"We often see in a lot of the crime dramas, they’ll get a computer and they’ll take a hard drive out or they’ll take different pieces out of a system and they’ll take them out there and run tests," says Nancy Hinman, interim associate provost for dynamic learning. "You could imagine a situation where there’s a desk with electronics equipment on it to run tests on parts."

by Jessica Mayrer

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