Last week we had the privilege to not only attend, but participate as a speaker, in the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) conference in Dayton, OH. It was an incredible event that brought industry, academia, and organizations like ours together to learn and grow. There were many conversations throughout the event on degrees, education [...]
The growing need to bolster cybersecurity is so great that jobs in the industry are becoming hard to fill. Metro St. Louis has 3,813 unfilled cybersecurity jobs, according to a supply and demand “heat map” on the website cyberseek.org. Nationally, the number measures in the hundreds of thousands and is projected to grow [...]
A new cybersecurity apprenticeship program is about to begin in the St. Louis region. The Midwest Cyber Center is partnering with the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment, known as SLATE, to launch the 18-month apprenticeship. The Cybersecurity Analyst Registered Apprenticeship is aimed at those who are at least 18, with a high school [...]
