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Teaching Cybersecurity for Jobs That Don’t Exist: Why Space Is the Ultimate Interdisciplinary Classroom
Thursday June 25, 2026 1:45pm - 2:30pm CDT
BLDG T-101/102
Cybersecurity education often lags the reality of how critical infrastructure systems actually operate—interconnected, global, and shaped by risks that cross technical, organizational, and national boundaries. This presentation argues that space is uniquely suited to close that gap.

Drawing on a collaboration between the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Space ISAC, this session reframes space not as a niche technical domain, but as a pedagogical integrator—one that forces students to reason simultaneously about cybersecurity, AI, supply chains, governance, resilience, and international coordination. Space systems touch nearly every critical infrastructure sector and operate in environments where failure is systemic, consequences are global, and roles evolve faster than job descriptions.

Presenters will share how faculty and industry leaders co-designed interdisciplinary learning experiences that expose students to real-world cyber risk, international perspectives, and emerging workforce roles that did not exist when most academic programs were conceived. Attendees will leave with a new way to think about cybersecurity education: not as content to be added, but as a capability to be cultivated across disciplines.
Speakers
avatar for Gretchen Bliss

Gretchen Bliss

Director of Cybersecurity programs, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Gretchen Bliss is the Cybersecurity Program Director at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) and Secretary of the Board for the Space ISAC. Previously, she served as Space ISAC Secretary from 2022–2026. In these roles, she works to strengthen collaboration across the... Read More →
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Erin Miller

Executive Director Space ISAC, Space ISAC
Erin has over a decade of experience building meaningful tech collaborations and has formed hundreds of formal partnerships between government, industry and academia to solve problems for warfighters and national security. Currently Erin is the Executive Director of the Space ISAC... Read More →
Thursday June 25, 2026 1:45pm - 2:30pm CDT
BLDG T-101/102
  Foundations of Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity, Presentation

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