Cybersecurity Education and Training (97.127)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Cyber Defense Education & Training (CDET) team is committed to strengthening the nation’s federal and national cybersecurity workforce through standardizing roles and helping to ensure we have well-trained cybersecurity professionals today as well as a strong pipeline of future cybersecurity leaders tomorrow. CDET manages training and education programs that promote awareness as well as create opportunities for citizens to become cybersecurity professionals needed to secure the nation’s cyber infrastructure and information systems. CDET makes investments in resources to educate the Nation to address current and future cybersecurity challenges by building and sustaining an adaptive cybersecurity workforce as a national asset. Through CETAP, DHS/CISA seeks to 1. Target K-12 educators, administrators, guidance counselors, and caregivers and promote awareness of national cybersecurity education and workforce training and education opportunities. 2. Create pathways for K-12 educators and potential educators and students by providing an adaptable cybersecurity curricular model that targets K-12 students (with a priority toward K-8) to include hands-on, engaging cybersecurity-integrated curriculum, gamified activities, competitions, and ready-to-use-tools.3. 

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