CISA Awards $2 Million to Bring Cybersecurity Training to Rural Communities and Diverse Populations
Award recipients NPower and CyberWarrior recognized for development of cyber workforce training programs.
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Award recipients NPower and CyberWarrior recognized for development of cyber workforce training programs.
iStock With the unprecedented increase of teleworkers in 2020, the need for securing remote networks and users became a top priority for organizations. IT teams with little manpower found it difficult to fill important security positions, made worse by the challenge of securely transitioning to remote work. The cybersecurity skills gap continues to pose multiple challenges for organizations dealing with an expanding attack surface and a growing number of security alerts. Organizations simply cannot acquire the cybersecurity talent required to address their biggest security chal...
Service. i think it's clear that we have tremendous concerns about russian hacking in our elections. i think it's more than ironic that we have a president-elect that kept talking about our elections being rigged, which i would consider trying to interfere with our elections, to be a part of a rigged kind of an election, at the same time he denied russia's activities in this regard. some of this was already touched on regarding the president-elect's attitudes towards the intelligence community, the morale, the impact on morale. so going forward, as we are challenged by the need to have more cy...
Technical, high-end skill sets that we badly need in the government and the intelligence community, that it would be helpful to have more latitude on compensation. >> i would agree. that both of these individuals as i sell using my authorities as the director of nsa, i'm going to authorize increased compensation for the high-end cyber workforce, because i'm just watching the loss. >> it's not just compensation that attracts people to what we are doing in our intelligence community, because service to the country is a very important motivation, and, of course, i would think morale would be very...
I think it's clear that we have a tremendous concerns about the russian hacking in our elections and i think it's more than ironic that we have a president-elect who kept talking about our elections being rigged, which i would consider trying to interfere with our elections to be a part of a rigged kind of an election and at the same time he denied russia's activities in this regard. some of this was already touched on regarding the president-elect's attitudes towards the intelligence community and the morale that the impact on morale. so going forward, as we are challenged by the need to have...