Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Announces NIST to Lead National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Announces NIST to Lead National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce on April 29, 2010. It is reproduced in full below.

This initiative expands the government’s cyber security education efforts into a national focus that will establish an operational, sustainable, and continually-improving cyber security education program for the public and private sectors focused on sound cyber practices. This expansion, and the new overall coordination role by NIST, is in response to the president’s priorities as expressed in his Cyberspace Policy Review in 2009.

To meet the initiative’s objectives, efforts have been structured into the following four tracks:

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce

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