Boeing Employees' Credit Union (BECU)

PISCES Resiliency Architecture - and you thought PISCES was just a Constellation!

This student team will work to design, assemble, program, install, and test a backup site for a very large server farm that is being used to protect various small cities and municipalities from cyber criminals. The project is PISCES: Public Infrastructure Security Cyber Education System. The Public Infrastructure Security Cyber Education System (PISCES) provides qualified students with curricula and supervised experiences to act as entry-level cyber analysts. Students analyze streaming data for small communities or municipalities who may otherwise not be able to obtain cybersecurity to the extent needed. Through PISCES, a reliable high-quality pipeline is being developed to address the shortage of cyber professionals ready for the workforce. In order for PISCES to stay high-quality and reliable, this student team needs to help create a backup site away from the western part of Washington. This student team will work to design, assemble, program and test the back up ELK stack at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. PISCES would provide the equipment for the students to use to install the backup site. The exact project parameters will be provided by the PISCES stakeholders and will include all the equipment necessary for the student team to assemble the backup site. The student team will work to use engineering rigor in order to make sure the site does exactly what is necessary to perform as the primary site in case of failure at the primary site in Poulsbo, WA. In addition to working to design, assemble, implement, and test the back up site, the student team will need to work to research and provide the best infrastructure path for the backup connectivity. All the resources for this project are provided by the PISCES Project. The outcome this student team is working to achieve is a complete replica of the Elk Stack that is currently located in Poulsbo, WA.