McClure School is now a CheckPoint academic partner

Ohio University is partnering with Checkpoint to enhance the cybersecurity workforce. The university will be a part of the global effort to prepare today’s students with vital cyber skills to protect our digital future. The partnership provides enhanced opportunities to existing and future students at OHIO, enabling them to master their cybersecurity skills through immersive learning and hands-on experience. Students can access on-demand courses, acquire industry-recognized certifications at an 85% discount, and train in a real-world threat landscape.

The program creates a comprehensive training pathway for students entering the cybersecurity workforce, providing foundational knowledge and certification opportunities in topics like Cloud Security, Security automation, and Network security. Through the certifications and real-world exercises, the students can hit the ground running and excel in the dynamic cybersecurity landscape. Students can also complete self-paced training and gain badges that provide enhanced visibility to industry recruiters and help them achieve impactful milestones in their cybersecurity journey.

Besides all the certifications and training, students can decompress and complete gamified escape rooms to engage in fun learning activities. These activities closely mimic actual cyber threats like ransomware attacks and enterprise compromises. Students get placed in a post-incident scenario and use industry-recognized tools to mitigate the threats and solve some of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges in modern infrastructure.

This partnership is an opportunity and a pathway that leads students from theory to practice through an engaging and immersive experience.

Key Opportunities: -

• On-demand self-paced training on foundational cybersecurity concepts
• Access to industry-recognized certifications and training at an 85% discount
• Hands-on immersive training scenarios preparing students for real-world cyber incidents
• Cyber badges to showcase professional achievements

The McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies strives to offer the best academic programs in the IT (Information Technology), cybersecurity (opens in a new window), the game development and the Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (opens in a new window)(VR/AR) industries. Our programs and certificates cover numerous aspects of the rapidly changing industries of information networking, cybersecurity operations (opens in a new window), data privacy, game development (opens in a new window), digital animation and the academic side of esports. (opens in a new window)