Auburn University, through its Auburn Cyber Research Center and McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, is collaborating with the Alabama National Guard Defensive Cyber Operation Element (DCO-E) in Montgomery, Alabama, to provide training to DCO-E cyber analysts on Auburn’s campus. 

In this effort, Auburn cyber researchers will provide subject matter expertise and technical support to the DCO-E through cyber analyst training, cyber range exercises and development of strategies to defend critical infrastructure across the state of Alabama. Jason Cuneo, chief technologist of the Auburn Cyber Research Center, will lead the training. The DCO-E analysts will learn on Auburn’s cyber range, a reconfigurable virtual environment used for simulated training and cybersecurity development. The training will also include system administration, security configurations, network traffic analysis, defense tools and techniques and cyber exercise preparation.