GLOBAL CENTER FOR CYBERSECURITY @ CORTEX
Cybersecurity represents a global, consequential challenge to consumers, government agencies, and enterprises large and small. Public and private sectors are facing an asymmetrical fight against determined criminals and sophisticated intelligence organizations that threaten consumer and corporate data and privacy.
Now more than ever—with the unprecedented growth in network-connected IoT devices, 5G, destructive malware, and “deep fakes”— global collaboration is needed to face and prevent new and existing cyberthreats.
THE CENTER
The Global Center for Cybersecurity @ Cortex (the “Center”) comprises a transdisciplinary network of companies, academic and research institutions, and startups spanning the sciences, defense, healthcare, finance, agriculture, aerospace, automotive, and technology sectors.
As a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization in the State of Missouri, the Center addresses cybersecurity’s exigent importance by facilitating engagement between companies, enterprises, non-profit entities, and federal and state government agencies in order to protect and defend public and private sectors against determined criminals and sophisticated intelligence organizations.
Additionally, the Center is creating a diverse talent pipeline by partnering with local educational and apprenticeship programs that target underrepresented communities.
THE CENTER’S FOUR PILLARS
COLLABORATION
Share Threat information between industry partners
Partnership between professional services organizations, startups & academic institutions
Design tailored curriculum and talent acquisition initiatives
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Establish diverse talent pipelines
Expand internships
Accelerate apprenticeships for “up-skilling” & “re-skilling"
Develop unified cybersecurity curriculum
Create credential program
Partner with local diversity-focused leadership to create a diverse workforce
RESEARCH
Create a transdisciplinary community of practice
Develop solutions for shared emergent cybersecurity challenges
Advance cyber- physical systems resilience
Explore issues in information privacy and integrity cybersecurity ethics
INNOVATION
Create community of entrepreneurs, world-class university researchers, and mature global enterprises
Provide access to investment capital
Accelerate development of new cyber solutions
Incubate cyber research and development projects
MEMBERSHIP
CORPORATE
Bayer
Daimler AG
Emerson
Mastercard
Boeing
Enterprise
AT&T
Barnes Jewish Hospital
EDUCATION
Washington University
in St. Louis*
Saint Louis University*
University of Missouri-
St. Louis*
Maryville University*
Fontbonne University*
Webster University*
CyberUp
GOVERMENT AGENCIES
FBI
NGA
USTRANSCOM
DISA
Air Mobility Command
INNOVATION
Cortex
Cultivation Capital
630Cyber
Crowdstrike
Q-Net
*Members of the Gateway Higher Education Cybersecurity Consortium
THE LOCATION
The Center is located at Cortex—a 200-acre innovation district that houses 11 on-site support centers and activators, as well as over 400 corporate, start-up, and academic units in areas including IT, finance, biotech, medical research, and plant science.
Cortex is a convener of ideas and enterprises, as well as a prime venue for hosting events, conferences, happy hours, seminars and courses, workshops, colloquia, CISO update sessions, and hackathons.