Erik Fretheim

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Keep campus cyber-secure by following these 8 security measures  2022-10-05
Western’s Poulsbo cyber range gets new funding for equipment upgrades and support 2022-05-25
Cybersecurity in Kitsap is done by students thanks to Pisces program through WWU

t’s important to understand, first and foremost, what is cybersecurity?

“It’s basically protecting our computers and our communications from people that are trying to do bad things with them,” says Erik Fretheim, the director for the cybersecurity program at Western Washington University…

2019-12-02
WWU Student Kim Huynh Wins National Cybersecurity Award 2019-05-08
Western Washington University on the Peninsulas Introduces Cybersecurity Certificate Option 2019-03-18
'How do you break that?': Inside Western Washington's new cybersecurity program in Poulsbo

In one exercise last year, students in Western Washington University’s new cybersecurity program set to monitoring data on the networks of five local governments: San Juan and Stevens counties and the cities of Anacortes, Washougal and Covington. The idea was the students would track the data…

2018-10-15
Boeing invests in cyber warriors, gives 50 computer servers to new WWU CyberRange

Western Washington University students in the Computer Information System Security program will practice cyberwarfare training in its new CyberRange, thanks to a gift of 50 computer servers from Boeing, Western officials said.

2017-07-24
Boeing Gifts 50 Computer Servers to Western Washington University for its New CyberRange 2017-07-20
Cybersecurity is hot, and these Washington colleges teach it

This summer, Western Washington University is building a “cyber range,” a computer lab that runs on a private computer network — reachable through the internet, but isolated from it.

On a cyber range, students can let a virus loose to see what harm it does, or run an…

2017-06-22
Western Washington University’s Poulsbo Location Will Be Home to First Cyber Range in Washington State 2017-05-09
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