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Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) Postponed
Due to continuing and even increasing COVID-19 concerns, both in Ohio and across the nation, it has become necessary to postpone the 2021 Community College Cyber Summit (3CS). Sinclair Community College is graciously offering to host the Summit in 2022. Finalized 2022 3CS dates will be be released in the coming weeks. Registrants who have already paid will receive a full refund.

View the full announcement from Bob Spear, 3CS Chair HERE.
Diversifying Cybersecurity Workforce Group on LinkedIn

The Cybersecurity Skills Journal invites you to join the conversation with our national network of employers, educators, practitioners, policy developers, and researchers who seek to broaden participation in the cybersecurity workforce.

Join the group HERE.
Curriculum Standards Panels

Established in 2016, the mission is to identify the learning objectives, concepts, procedures, situational judgments, and intellective abilities required to successfully complete courses currently available as digital courseware from the National CyberWatch Center.

To learn more, including participating as a panelist, see HERE.
Call for Abstracts on Diversifying the Cybersecurity Workforce
Are you interested in serving the cybersecurity profession? Practitioners, scholars and educators... Do you have experiences, data, cases, or instructional designs that suggest how our nation can succeed in diversifying the cybersecurity workforce? Submit a paper proposal or draft abstract to the Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Diversifying the Cybersecurity Workforce. This publication will report systematic and rigorous investigations of the contributing causes, mediating or moderating influences, and solutions for diversifying the cybersecurity workforce.
Learn more and download prior issues HERE.
Hack the Box Competition
Are your students looking to put their skills to the test against a real-world system? Think they can guide their way through a cyber kill chain and exploitation? The National Cybersecurity Student Association's Hack the Box competition will have students take a crack at a public facing web application and help Company X pen test it! Some high-level security has been added for students to try and gain access! As a bonus, there will be opportunities for TCP/IP stack tests, telephone attacks, and SQL injection.
Learn more and find the authorized target space HERE.
ACM Group for Two-Year Computing Education Programs

Join ACM2Y, September 24, 2021 at 3 pm ET / 7 pm GMT, for a Virtual Panel: From Pivot to Promise: Lessons Learned during COVID-19: what did we as educators learn from student experiences? How do we incorporate these experiences/discoveries into our ‘new normal’? What went well during COVID-19? Lessons Learned.

Join HERE.
8th Annual Cybersecurity Summit - Virtual (Free) - Bay Path University

Jessica Bair, Director, Cisco Secure Technical Alliance, will speak to the following: the skills required to pursue a career in cybersecurity; the building blocks to grow a successful cybersecurity career, including education and career certificates; the experience to help you in a field that is constantly changing; and, most important, how to cultivate mentorship relationships and your network.

Register HERE.
Join the In-Demand Field of Cybersecurity
National CyberWatch member, Rider University, has a 100% online M.S. in Cybersecurity program that provides a powerful combination of a traditional liberal arts education with expert knowledge and technical skills to excel in the dynamic field of cybersecurity. According to the Official Annual Cybersecurity Jobs Report, there currently are 3.5 million unfilled cyber jobs globally. With the option to choose between Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics, students learn what it takes to play a critical role in this in-demand industry.
Learn more about the Rider M.S. in Cybersecurity program HERE.
Wanted: Assistant Professor of Information Technology

National CyberWatch member, Middle Georgia State University (MGA), is seeking a candidate for the position of Assistant Professor (10-month tenure track) in the Information Technology Program.
For more information and to apply, please visit HERE.

If you're a National CyberWatch member and have a job posting for us to share, please email info@nationalcyberwatch.org.
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