Partnerships
Why Partner with Boise State?
Here at Boise State, we pride ourselves on an innovative and transdisciplinary approach to all challenges, and cybersecurity is no different. The Institute engages faculty experts from nearly every discipline to produce holistic solutions and research that serves the needs of a diverse and complex society.
While cybersecurity is a pervasive need, we understand that everyone’s cybersecurity needs and goals are unique. We are proud to offer collaborations tailored to meet the goals of the individual organization.
By collaborating with Boise State, your organization gains three critical elements: expertise, a cyber-ready workforce, and a strategic partner.

World-Class Expertise
- Connect with subject matter experts who have research in cybersecurity specializations.
- Engage with a holistic team able to tackle your needs today, and tomorrow, with pragmatic, applicable results.

Cyber-Ready Workforce
- Discover a cyber-ready workforce of student interns (and future employees).
- These students reduce the traditional “activation gap” employers often see when employing curriculum-focused students.
- Boise State students have core cybersecurity knowledge and appropriate competency-based training to be effective for employers on day one.

Strategic Partner
- Providing up-to-date, relevant and applicable research.
- Support in market guidance and feedback on trends.
- Opportunities for technology partnerships and testing.
- Gain a support team ready to tackle special research needs or projects.
Our Partners
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Center for Advanced Energy Studies
CAES is a research, education, and innovation consortium consisting of the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory and the public research universities of Idaho. CAES harnesses the power of collaboration, closely integrating the universities and national laboratory to solve critical energy challenges while providing workforce training opportunities and encouraging economic development in communities throughout the region.
CAES is a research, education, and innovation consortium consisting of the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory and the public research universities of Idaho. CAES harnesses the power of collaboration, closely integrating the universities and national laboratory to solve critical energy challenges while providing workforce training opportunities and encouraging economic development in communities throughout the region.
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Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute
The HCRI provides a platform to connect researchers, students, and community partners to collaboratively address community resilience research and practical needs. HCRI aims to reduce the impacts of future hazards and climate change by cultivating social and environmental equity. HCRI envisions a world where researchers and community partners regularly work together to address societal challenges, effectively translating research to practice.
The HCRI provides a platform to connect researchers, students, and community partners to collaboratively address community resilience research and practical needs. HCRI aims to reduce the impacts of future hazards and climate change by cultivating social and environmental equity. HCRI envisions a world where researchers and community partners regularly work together to address societal challenges, effectively translating research to practice.
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TechHelp
From university-based offices in Boise, Post Falls, Twin Falls, and Pocatello, TechHelp Specialists help Idaho manufacturers, food processors and entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness through continuous product and process innovation.
From university-based offices in Boise, Post Falls, Twin Falls, and Pocatello, TechHelp Specialists help Idaho manufacturers, food processors and entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness through continuous product and process innovation.
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Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform delivers Everything Detection and Response by ingesting data from all tools, automatically correlating alerts into incidents across the entire attack surface, delivering fewer and higher-fidelity incidents, and responding to threats automatically through AI and machine learning. Our XDR Kill Chain™, fully compatible with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, is designed to characterize every aspect of modern attacks while remaining intuitive to understand. This reduces enterprise risk through early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. Typically, our platform delivers an 8X improvement in MTTD and a 20X improvement in MTTR. The company is based in Silicon Valley.
Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform delivers Everything Detection and Response by ingesting data from all tools, automatically correlating alerts into incidents across the entire attack surface, delivering fewer and higher-fidelity incidents, and responding to threats automatically through AI and machine learning. Our XDR Kill Chain™, fully compatible with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, is designed to characterize every aspect of modern attacks while remaining intuitive to understand. This reduces enterprise risk through early and precise identification and remediation of all attack activities while slashing costs, retaining investments in existing tools and accelerating analyst productivity. Typically, our platform delivers an 8X improvement in MTTD and a 20X improvement in MTTR. The company is based in Silicon Valley.