UA Faculty Fellow and Lecturer Roberto Mejias and Eller IT director Lance Hoopes recently completed the ground work offering two-MIS course series on Information Security (MIS 515 and MIS 516) for NSA (U.S. National Security Agency) certification.

These two courses were submitted in August, 2007 for review to the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and were recently approved by the CNSS for official certification in the following areas:

     MIS 515 - Information Systems Security (InfoSec) 
                    Professionals, NSTISSI No. 4011

     MIS 515 - Senior Systems Managers, CNSS No. 4012

     MIS 516 - Risk Analysts, CNSSI No. 4016 Entry Level

The UA Eller MIS department will receive recognition and an official notice of certification during the June, 2008 CNSS Awards Ceremony, to be held at the 12th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), under the auspices of the U.S. the National Security Agency. Roberto Mejias and Lance Hoopes will be attending representing Eller’s MIS Department. These CNSS course certifications will be valid for the Eller MIS department through June 2013. 

"These CNSS certificates are an important first step in establishing the MIS Department as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance" says Jay Nunamaker, Regents and Soldwedel Professor with the MIS Department.