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"When our young people are ready to join the workforce," Rice says, "we need to create new pathways for graduates who would typically find a cyber career out of reach." — PolitiTweet.org

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“Building that pipeline must start with the youngest minds, because that same lack of representation we see in the cybersecurity workforce shows up in high school or even earlier," Rice says. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Those threats have only multiplied in recent years," Rice says, "yet we have a great deal more work to do to build a cybersecurity workforce that can adequately counter those threats." — PolitiTweet.org

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.@AmbassadorRice speaking now. She mentions that she's worked on cyber threats for a long time, going back to her time as Obama's national security adviser. https://t.co/5BirGXZ8cb — PolitiTweet.org

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As part of a 120-day cybersecurity apprenticeship sprint, Labor and Commerce will help companies create or expand cyber-focused apprenticeship programs in less than 48 hours. Speed is key, Walsh says. Biden's team learned this responding to trucker shortage a few months ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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Walsh: “The jobs that we’re talking about … they’re good-paying jobs. They create an opportunity and a good pathway into the middle class for families that wouldn't otherwise have that opportunity.” — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SecMartyWalsh discusses the IT and cyber challenges that he saw in Boston and how it all comes down to a people shortage. https://t.co/ALbPYdjQbt — PolitiTweet.org

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Raimondo mentions the new DOL/DOC cyber apprenticeship initiative, which will use part of Commerce's Good Jobs Challenge money from ARPA to "encourage registered apprenticeship programs to meet [cyber workforce] needs.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Raimondo on diversity: “We’re not going to find 700,000 people if we’re only looking for women. It’s not going to happen.” — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SecRaimondo speaking now, discussing @NIST data showing a major increase in open cyber jobs. https://t.co/GmJdvirEt6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@HowellONeill *pained voice* my stock art! — PolitiTweet.org

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Need more ties between schools and employers. DeWalt: “How do we start to create a many-to-many, almost a marketplace, where recruiters, universities, employers can all work together to attract themselves to jobs and opportunities in this space?” — PolitiTweet.org

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Another problem is getting people to pursue cyber careers. Do young people think cyber is cool? “What can we do to make it part of our culture, make it ... an interesting field to go into?” — PolitiTweet.org

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One big problem is the "severe lack of teachers," DeWalt says. There are few incentives to become a teacher, but you can't train a workforce without people who have those skills and know how to communicate them. — PolitiTweet.org

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NightDragon's Dave DeWalt delivers a report from the session focused on core IT/cyber workers. Their goal was to figure out how to “get the next generation of cyber defenders into the workforce, and how do we create pathways to do that?" — PolitiTweet.org

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"It is imperative to invest in diversity," Stewart says, along with "re-skilling workers and finding areas of the countries where job shortages are at their height or certain industries are not growing and we can have an opportunity to” retrain people. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@CamilleEsq delivers recap from session focused on people adjacent to core cyber jobs, e.g. corporate boards. “We have to reset the narrative to steer perceptions...around cybersecurity away from compliance…to an accelerator for the work that’s going on in the organization.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Hagerott says someone brought up the fact that a certain phone manufacturer has been degrading the functionality of their older phones to get people to upgrade. But that just isolates people who can’t upgrade, he says. The White House can step up and tell them to stop. 👀 — PolitiTweet.org

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"There needs to be social influencers," Hagerott says. "We need to reach people. … We need to learn to speak to them, and then we’ve got to teach them." — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Hagerott, chancellor of the North Dakota University System, delivers a report from the session focused on whole-of-society cyber literacy. He says they considered who is influential in communities, from labor groups to home-care workers to suburban women. — PolitiTweet.org

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“We’re not in a good place” on cybersecurity, Inglis says. On cyber workforce/education specifically: “We can choose to go to a different place, but we have to intentionally make that choice. We have to be willing to make the investments necessary to go to that place.” — PolitiTweet.org

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.@ncdinglis speaking now. https://t.co/FwL0NVsynz — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm at the White House cyber workforce and education summit for the open-press wrap-up session. Folks are still filing back into the EEOB's Indian Treaty Room. @ncdinglis and other senior officials and breakout session leads will recap what they discussed this morning. https://t.co/3AdfJkgqSs — PolitiTweet.org

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@snlyngaas @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA @jeffstone500 I'll never forget that day — PolitiTweet.org

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@WilliamTurton That's what we in the biz call "two-thirds of a tri-seal" — PolitiTweet.org

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Commitments from the White House cyber education summit are starting to trickle out. @Fortinet, @CompTIA, @Cisco, and @DakotaState among those contributing, partly through Biden admin's new Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint. https://t.co/nr6HQ0rACH — PolitiTweet.org

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"Monaco lauded the unnamed Kansas organization for reporting the incident to the FBI and urged more US companies to do so to help the bureau disrupt a ransomware ecosystem that thrives on victims keeping quiet." — PolitiTweet.org

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Have you listened to the newest @HothTakes episode yet? @byrdinator and I explain who our favorite Jedi are and why, with some discussion of what might be next for each of them. https://t.co/wedIENiRgL — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a reminder, as we see rapidly multiply examples of our climate apocalypse, that we know who's responsible for this, and they haven't faced any serious consequences. — PolitiTweet.org

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It remains unbelievable to me that this is how conversations about troop deployments were held in the middle of a terrorist attack on our seat of government. — PolitiTweet.org