On Monday Jan. 4, an agreement of cooperation was fixed between the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA)  represented CoEIA director Dr. Khaled Alghathbar and the College of Computer & Information Science represented by its dean Dr. Hosam bin Mohammed Ramdan. The agreement allows CoEIA to provides its services through its researchers, consultants to lecture information security specialized materials to all academic stages (graduate, MA, and PhD) besides supervising the students' projects as well as their MAs and PhDs. 

Moreover, CoEIA will provide support to the teaching staff, researchers, and students in the field of information security besides holding training courses, lectures, and workshops that are specialized in the same field. CoEIA also will cooperate with the College to translate and compose information security publications. The cooperation will additionally cover implementing applied project in society as well as developing information security policies and strategies according to the standard authorized in that field.
CoEIA is sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education with a vision to be an internationally recognized center by supporting researches, knowledge transfer, and providing consultation in the field of information security.