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MY TAKE: Here’s how diversity can strengthen cybersecurity — at many levels

The Last Watchdog

Of the many cybersecurity executives I’ve interviewed, Keenan Skelly’s career path may be the most distinctive. Related: How ‘gamification’ makes training stick. Here’s why: The experts with the knowledge to tweak the algorithms for automated detection systems, at this moment, comprise a very narrow talent pool.

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Cyber.org pilot program aims to steer minority students toward HBCU cyber degrees

SC Magazine

A new diversity pilot program by Cyber.org is designed to encourage high-school students to study cybersecurity at historically black colleges and universities. This “ talent feeder program ” has named Caddo Parish Public Schools in northwestern Louisiana as its first participating education district.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s Cyber Range hubs provide career paths to high-schoolers, underutilized adults

The Last Watchdog

Michigan is cultivating a collection of amazing cybersecurity training facilities, called Cyber Range hubs, that are shining models for what’s possible when inspired program leaders are given access to leading-edge resources, wisely supplied by public agencies and private foundations. Merit 1981. Merit Network, by the way, is quite unique.