LAKELAND, Fla. — A local tech firm and Florida Polytechnic University are teaming up to teach students how to protect against cyberthreats.

What You Need To Know • Florida Polytechnic University partnered with tech firm Sittadel to launch a student-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) • Students are learning to detect and defend against cyberattacks, starting with email security • Currently, only four students work in the SOC, but the university plans to expand the program and add more students

The two launched a new student-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) on the university’s campus. When Oscar Lin, a senior software engineering student, heard about the center, he said he immediately applied for a position.

“I wanted to go more into the IT side and really understand h

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