Alstom and Rochester ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute sign MoU
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Alstom and the Rochester Institute of Technology ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (RIT GCI) have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance transportation cybersecurity, specifically in the areas of education, development, and research.
Alstom and RIT GCI have established five pillars of collaboration, which include Alstom ‘as a teacher’ and student projects, student/talent recruitment activities, corporate training and education, and sponsored research.
In addition, Alstom is the theme sponsor of the 2023 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC), a global offense-based collegiate computing security event. This sponsorship will introduce, for the very first time, a cybersecurity rail transportation theme to the competition that involves over 100 schools across the globe.
Alstom plans to demonstrate with CPTC modelling, how it can secure customers’ rail networks and prevent operational disruptions leveraging industry best practices and standards. RIT students will have premiere access to Alstom cybersecurity engineers and experts via student capstone projects, Alstom-taught signal-security curricula, graduate sponsored research projects, and career opportunities.
Source: Alstom
