Episode Details

The Russian / Ukraine conflict has escalated the cybersecurity worker shortage and shown us how important it is that we have high skilled national security workers to combat future cybersecurity threats. IT industry statistics show that the need for cybersecurity workers has increased 30% in the last year with more than 400,000 open cybersecurity jobs.

A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant intends to train veterans and their spouses for free with the cybersecurity skills needed in this high demand digital time. The $1M grant from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will put veterans and military spouses through an intensive cybersecurity training course, while also providing hands-on training opportunities with commercial clients and government contractors. This is the first time CISA has awarded a cybersecurity grant that recruits cybersecurity workers - which we are seeing a huge staffing gap with the amount of cybersecurity openings in comparison to the talent we have on hand.

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