Multimedia Gallery - Cybersecurity students at UIUC. In 2nd row, 3rd from left is Whitney Merrill, now practicing law.

October 30, 2014

Cybersecurity students at UIUC. In 2nd row, 3rd from left is Whitney Merrill, now practicing law.

Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program scholars have backgrounds in computer science, computer engineering and law. There are currently 18 students in the Illinois ICSSP. Alums of the program, which launched in 2009, have gone on to work at Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Lab, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA and other national labs and government agencies. In the second row, third from left, is Whitney Merrill, now a practicing lawyer, who is completing the UIUC cybersecurity program.

Credit: Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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