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
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 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.