UI opens Post Falls cybersecurity center

It sounds like a state-of-the-art burrow in a Tom Clancy techno thriller – the Cybersecurity Training and Operations Center. Instead, it’s a new extension of the University of Idaho inside the college’s Post Falls research park. Here, aspiring computer security experts can prepare and test for their professional certifications, and employees in the field can pursue on-the-job training. In addition, a laboratory will use simulated cyberattacks as a training tool, and area businesses can learn how vulnerable they are to a security breach and what to do about it. “It’s like a command center, an air traffic control room,” said Karen Thurston, the center’s director and head of Emerging Technology Business Development at UI/ Scott Maben , SR. More here.

Question: Are you pleased that the University of Idaho would offer something like this in Kootenai County?