History
2001 - NUCIA Founded
2004 - Maturing
A majority of the current NUCIA faculty were recruited and assembled as the first drafts of the proposed Degree in IA were drawn up and revised.
During this time, the first Information assurance courses opened to student enrollment. With classes officially launched, the first NSF Federal Cyber Service SFS sholars were accepted and began their concentrations in IA.
2006 - Students Go Forth
The first group of NSF Federal Cyber Service SFS scholars graduate and attain employment in various government agencies and national laboratories. These employers included the National Security Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Defense Intelligence Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Strategic Command.
The second group of NSF Federal Cyber Service SFS scholars began their IA education with NUCIA.
2007 - Bachelor Degree Arrives
The Bachelor of Science in Information Assurance degree was finally offered by the University of Nebraska at Omaha for the first time.
2012 - Master Degree Program Launched
After establishing a successful decade, the Information Assurance program launched a Master of Science degree.
2013 - Bachelor and Master Degrees Renamed to Cybersecurity
The degrees are officially renamed to Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Master of Science in Cybersecurity.
2016-17 - NSA CAE Cyber Defense and Cyber Operations Designations
In 2004 UNO was recognized as a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance, a credential which has subsequently been renewed several times. Since, then the designation has changed slightly to be CAE-CDE (Cyber Defense Education). In late 2016, the CYBR program was also designated as a Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO).
Spring 2022 - NUCIA is renamed NebraskaCYBER
Information Assurance is the name by which the field of Cybersecurity was known 15-20 years ago. The Center has been the outward-facing arm of the NSA Designated Cybersecurity programs at UNO since 2003. These cybersecurity programs were, incidentally, also called Information Assurance (IA) programs until 2016. Renaming NUCIA as NebraskaCYBR brings it in sync with the current relevant terminology in the field, and the NSA Designated (CAE-CD and CAE-CO) Cybersecurity programs at UNO. None of the current functions of the Center are changing, only the name.
NUCIA is now NebraskaCYBER: Nebraska University Center for Cybersecurity