Company Bolsters Ongoing Efforts to Equip IT Security Industry With Needed Technical Talent to Keep Organizations Secure and Productive in the Digital Age
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 14, 2016) - Cybersecurity provides the critical foundation organizations require to protect themselves, enable trust, move faster, add greater value and grow. However, research indicates there will be a global shortage of two million cybersecurity professionals by 2019. To help close this security skills gap, Cisco (
The Global Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
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Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general manager, Cisco Services, said:
"Cybersecurity is essential to digital success. Many CEOs across the globe tell us their ability to innovate is hampered by their security concerns in the digital world. This creates a big future demand for skill sets that don't exist at scale today. We developed this scholarship program to help jump-start the development of new talent. This includes the opportunity to help diversify the IT security industry by reaching people around the world including veterans, women and those early in their careers, to inspire them to enter the cybersecurity profession. This is just a start to help us educate, train and reskill the job force to become the security IT professionals needed to help address this vast talent shortage."
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For more information and to apply for the Cisco Global Security Scholarship visit:
http://www.cisco.com/go/securityscholar
For more information about CCNA Cyber Ops, visit: www.cisco.com/go/ccnacyberops
For more information about CCIE Security, visit: www.cisco.com/go/cciesecurity
Cisco Security Blog: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/cisco-10-million-cybersecurity-scholarship
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