The new TSYS Center for Cybersecurity will officially open on Monday at Columbus State University’s Turner College of Business and TSYS School of Computer Science. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at the CSU Center for Commerce and Technology.

The TSYS Center for Cybersecurity is one result from a $5 million gift in 2015 to Columbus State University’s ongoing First Choice comprehensive campaign.

Part of the gift from Columbus, Ga.-based TSYS, a leading global payments provider, was designed to prepare students for careers in cybersecurity both in Georgia and throughout the nation. Lack of qualified cyber security practitioners has been highlighted as a major challenge facing both industry and government.

Through TSYS’s partnership with CSU, TSYS has designated $2.5 million to establish the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity Center with a focus on financial services security. To house the center, the university relocated a computer lab to the library to create two learning spaces and equipped them with the latest in cybersecurity teaching tools and computers.