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Four years after graduating from the University of Washington, Audra Linsenmayer began to realize that the job opportunities were few for someone who had majored in English and psychology, as she had.

She was working as a contractor at Amazon.com, editing children’s books and comic books…

The urgent and massive need for computer security professionals has caught the government, industry and education sectors quite unprepared. Corporations such as Target are suddenly finding that large-scale compromise of their information systems is not just an embarrassment, but a significant…

Whatcom County is well served in the training of computer-security practitioners. The established, accredited two-year Cybersecurity program at Whatcom Community College has now been joined by a second two-year program at Western Washington University, together culminating in a bachelor's…

A team from Western Washington University won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional at Highline Community College in March and was to attend the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

Western Washington University students are competing, for the first time, in a national competition that pits computer-science students against each other in a three-day exercise in cyber defense.

Winners of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition get a…