"NIST Awards $3.6 Million for Community-Based Cybersecurity Workforce Development"

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded cooperative agreements totaling about $3.6 million to build the workforce required to protect enterprises from cybersecurity threats. The grants will be distributed to 18 education and community organizations in 15 states working to address the nation's shortage of skilled cybersecurity employees. NICE, a NIST-led partnership of government, academia, and the private sector dedicated to cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development, will oversee the cooperative agreements. The NICE-funded CyberSeek tool, which analyzes data on the cybersecurity job market, discovered nearly 450,000 cybersecurity job openings in the US between January 2023 and January 2024. At the time, there were only 82 workers available to fill every 100 cybersecurity job openings in the US. This article continues to discuss NIST's awarding of cooperative agreements in support of community-based cybersecurity workforce development.

NIST reports "NIST Awards $3.6 Million for Community-Based Cybersecurity Workforce Development"

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