In October of 2021, the university of Ottawa and IBM announced a multi-year partnership to build and operate a new, state of the art Cyber Range for research and training in cybersecurity. This collaboration is, in reality, the next step in a decade long close collaboration between IBM CAS and research groups at the university of Ottawa. In this presentation, Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan and Dr Vio Onut, the co-directors of the new Cyber Range, will discuss the agreement between the university and IBM, what made it possible in the first place, and how this partnership between academia and industry is structure to maximize its chances of long-term success.
Biography – Dr. Guy-Vincent Jourdan
Biography – Vosif-Viorel (Vio) Onut