Cybersecurity Compliance

For JCWS, JCWS-H, JIOOC, JIOPC, JC4ICSOC and other JFSC Short Courses

*See requirements for 10-month JPME Colleges and CIC Short Courses

*See requirements for International Students

NDU provides students with access to the Internet, wireless networks, curricula, and research tools, which are all via DoD-owned, -managed, and -compliant information systems. These IT tools will all be critical to your success at NDU.

Access is predicated on student compliance with DoD Information Assurance (IA) regulations and requirements. No student will receive access to any NDU system until they have accurately and fully completed these IA requirements. In order to satisfy IA regulations, you must submit three documents NO LATER THAN TWO WEEKS PRIOR to your program/course start date:

  • Cyber Awareness Challenge Course Completion Certificate
  • Completed, signed NDU System Authorization Access Request (SAAR) form 2875
  • NDU Acceptable Use Policy

Cyber Awareness Challenge Course

*NOTE: Cyber training must be renewed every 365 days and cannot lapse during your enrollment; expired Cyber training results in an immediate loss of access to NDU information systems. 

STEP 1a: If you HAVE a current annual Cyber Awareness course completion certificate, check the date. If your current certificate date is valid past your program/course end date, email the certificate as a PDF attachment to ndu-stuacctreqforms@ndu.edu. 

STEP 1b: If you DO NOT HAVE a current annual Cyber Awareness course completion certificate, or if your certificate expires before your program/course end date: Complete a DoD, JS or military service-approved annual Cyber Awareness course from one of the following locations:  

  1. Via JKO at https://jkodirect.jten.mil/html/COI.xhtml?course_prefix=DOD&course_number=-US1364-22 *Requres registration
  2. Via DISA at https://public.cyber.mil/training/cyber-awareness-challenge/
  3. Via Navy e-Learning at https://learning.nel.navy.mil/ELIAASv2p/ *Requires CAC and registration
  4. Via the Air Force Advanced Distributed Learning System (ADLS) at: https://golearn.adls.af.mil/login.aspx *Requires CAC and registration

STEP 2: Save your Cyber Awareness course completion certificate as a PDF document to your computing device using the file naming convention collegeprogram_lastname_firstname_CERT (e.g. JCWS_Smith_John_CERT)

NDU System Authorization Access Request Form 2875

STEP 1: Open the NDU System Authorization Access Request Form 2875, complete Section I, and digitally sign the form.

  1. Enter required data in highlighted fields 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 15 (the date entered in box 15 must match the date on your Cyber Awareness Training Certificate). *NOTE: Please provide a personal email address to which you will have continuous access (i.e. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.)
  2. Enter today's date in box 17. *NOTE: Must be done BEFORE signing.
  3. Digitally sign box 16. *NOTE: Digital signature requires CAC or PIV.
  4. Save the signed 2875 as a PDF to your computing device using the file naming convention collegeprogram_lastname_firstname_2875 (e.g. JCWS_2875).

STEP 2: Do NOT complete Section II.

STEP 3: Have your home unit/organization's Security Office complete Section III of the SAAR Form 2875. 

To complete the form:

  1. Forward your digitally signed 2875 to your organization's Security Office.
  2. Your Security Office must complete fields 27-34, and a Security Officer must digitally sign the form. All boxes are required.
  3. Have your Security Office return the completed form to you.

STEP 4: Save your completed, signed 2875 as a PDF document to your computing device using the file naming convention collegeprogram_lastname_firstname_2875 (e.g. JCWS_Smith_John_2875).

NDU Acceptable Use Policy Form

STEP 1: Open the NDU Acceptable Use Policy form and thoroughly review the content.

STEP 2: Type your name and date into the fields at the bottom of the form, and digitally sign the form. *NOTE: The date on the AUP must match the date on your digital signature.

STEP 3: Save your completed, signed AUP as a PDF document to your computing device using the file naming convention collegeprogram_lastname_firstname_AUP (e.g. JCWS_Smith_John_AUP).

Submitting Your Cybersecurity Documentation to NDU

1. Open an email addressed to the NDU Cybersecurity Compliance POC: ndu-stuacctreqforms@ndu.edu.

2. Attach your Cyber Awareness Challenge course completion certificate (named JCWS_YourLastName_YourFirstName_CERT)

3. Attach your SAAR Form 2875 (named JCWS_YourLastName_YourFirstName_2875)

4. Attach your NDU Acceptable Use Policy Form (named JCWS_YourLastName_YourFirstName_AUP)

5. Send the email.

NDU ITD Service Desk

(202) 685-3824