As part of the efforts of the State Government to strengthen the training and development of specialists for research and innovation in the detection and response to digital threats, new technological equipment was delivered to the Cybersecurity laboratories of the Metropolitan Technological University (UTM). ) and the Polytechnic University of Yucatán (UPY).
The new equipment delivered by the Secretariat of Research, Innovation and Higher Education (Siies), is a six-square-meter high-definition video wall, made up of six liquid crystal screens or LCDs, and hardware, which are part of the second delivery of equipment for these two training spaces inaugurated by Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal, in January 2023.
The so-called Video Walls have the capacity to be operated simultaneously by four workstations wirelessly, which allows viewing presentations, activities, as well as attack and defense simulations in real time and emulating environments for the mitigation of software vulnerabilities.
Currently, the UPY offers Cybersecurity Engineering, while the UTM provides its educational service with Digital Networks and Cybersecurity Engineering, the specialty in Cybersecurity and the Diploma in Cybersecurity. In addition, both universities are part of the institutions that will teach the Master’s Degree in Cybersecurity in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY) starting in January 2025.
Yucatán is the first entity with this educational offer in Southeast Mexico preparing young people for this labor field with the help of technology and with these new innovative equipment, they are positioned as pioneers of the national network of Universities. Technological and Polytechnics in the region.
The Cybersecurity laboratories were designed for the development of specialists in the field and for research and innovation in governance, management, detection and response procedures to emerging digital threats in different areas of application, such as Industry 4.0, Industrial Control Systems (ICS). /SCADA) in critical infrastructures, Fintech, Blockchain, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, among others.
It is worth remembering that Yucatán positioned itself as a reference in cybersecurity with the establishment of 2 new Cybersecurity Laboratories at the Polytechnic Universities of Yucatán (UPY) and Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTM) and 5 ICT laboratories, which will contribute to the development of specialists for research and innovation in the detection and response to digital threats.
In this way, Yucatán became the first entity to have a career and specialty in Cybersecurity in the entire Southeast of the country.
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