Towson University-born cybersecurity nonprofit SecurEd Inc.’s recent award of $150,000 from the Gula Tech Foundation’s Confidence in Data Care grant competition will support further innovation focused on building a cyber-ready workforce. The award brings SecurEd’s 2020–21 revenue to $1.5 million.
SecurEd placed third in the national competition for cybersecurity nonprofit organizations that provide practical, hands-on or immersive cybersecurity experiences that give confidence to students, teachers, practitioners and political and business leaders.
Based out of the StarTUp at the Armory, SecurEd helps academic institutions build a cyber-ready workforce through product and services that facilitate teaching, learning and research across the data care education continuum.
“The mantra of SecurEd is free cybersecurity curriculum,” says Blair Taylor, associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences who co-founded the company with Sidd Kaza, professor and director of the TU Cyber4All Center, in 2017. “With the help of foundations like Gula Tech, we are able to sustain our efforts and look toward the future.”
