Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published April 24, 2026
The University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA) and the Aiken County Public School District entered into a formal agreement, providing cybersecurity services, including network monitoring, incident investigation and response, and remediation and recovery assistance, through the university’s student-run Regional Security Operations Center (RSOC).
In 2020, almost 50 percent of all cyberattacks targeted government and municipal systems. The impact resulted in almost $19 billion in recovery costs and impacted 71 million people.