"Creating a National Network of Cybersecurity Institutes"

The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI) has been awarded $2 million by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CIRI is one of the DHS S&T Centers of Excellence (COEs) led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Through this funding, CIRI will develop a plan for CISA to build a national network of cybersecurity institutes. These institutes will educate and train cybersecurity professionals to help reduce the cybersecurity workforce gap. CIRI will collaborate with Auburn University, Purdue University, and the University of Tulsa to develop the plan, based on an academic hub-and-spoke model, for building this network of cybersecurity institutes. This article continues to discuss the growing cybersecurity workforce shortage and the award given to CIRI to develop a plan to create a national network of institutes to cultivate the skills of cybersecurity professionals. 

Homeland Security News Wire reports "Creating a National Network of Cybersecurity Institutes"