CHEYENNE – Leading into the budget session with an energy-related cash shortfall, Gov. Matt Mead still thought cybersecurity important enough to request about $600,000 per year to help create cyber defense education programs in Wyoming.
In a letter to the purse-holding Joint Appropriations Committee, Mead asked for $1.2 million over the next two years to address a national and local shortfall of quality, formal training programs for cybersecurity. The money would allow the University of Wyoming and the Laramie County Community College to work together to certify as centers of “academic excellence in information assurance and cyber defense.”
“There is a shortage of cybersecurity experts in Wyoming with the knowledge, skills and abilities to address the needs of government and private business,” Mead wrote.
Mead noted that cybersecurity acts as an increasingly complex shield to essential technology used in government and business. For the full article click here
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