U.S. Military Academy cadets from the Cadet Cyber Team and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department represented West Point in an inter-academy National Security Agency (NSA) Cyber Exercise competition virtually and in-person at the Maritime Conference Center from March 31-April 2, 2025, in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. ...

The Army Cyber Institute in conjunction with Palo Alto Networks co-sponsored the Joint Service Academy Cybersecurity (JSAC) Conference April 4-5 at the Thayer Hotel on West Point....

The 2024 West Point Class of 1970 Cyber Leaders Conference, themed "Company Grade Leadership in Cyber," united ROTC and West Point cadets recently selected for the cyber branch with experienced cyber personnel from across the Army from Jan. 29-31, 2024, at the U.S. Military Academy....

One of the final beams was placed on top of the future Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) during a ceremony June 22, 2023, at the U.S. Military Academy. Traditionally, a beam topping ceremony is the celebration of the last beam placed on the building and marks a major milestone in the construction process of that building....

The cyber battlefield is growing faster, larger and more complex, and future Army operators/analysts will need to keep pace to be effective. ...

The date was May 8, 2021, and the Colonial Pipeline Company announced it halted its operations due to a ransomware attack, which disrupted critical supplies of gasoline and other refined products throughout the east coast of the United States – most notably, the southeast part of the U.S. ...

Around five years ago, cadets toured through a cyber operations center where Chief Warrant Officer 3, Justin Helphenstine, had worked. After completing the tour, he asked the cadets if they were interested in joining the cyber branch....

In order to enhance the Army’s defense capabilities against malicious cyber attacks, the U.S. Military Academy facilitated an eight-week summer internship program designed to provide real-world futuristic cyber research experience to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets at the Army Cyber Institute. ...

To understand what the future cyber threat may look like, people need to think outside-the-box to allow for a flow of new and interesting ideas. Threatcasting is a methodology that provides this opportunity for government, DOD, public, private, industry and academia to come together and brainstorm the different possible futures to help provide ways to mitigate and combat future threats. ...

In an academic trip sponsored by Margin of excellence gift funds provided through the Cyber Research Center (CRC) NSA Cyberspace Exercise (NCX) endowment, 36 cadets attended a virtual NCX cybersecurity competition at the U.S. Military Academy April 8-10. ...