On May 9, 2017, Rodney Petersen, Director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, participated in a Keynote Panel Discussion at the CyberSecureGov Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference theme was “Educating the Workforce in Cyber” and the opening panel provided a U.S. Government Perspective on the recently released 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study by The Center for Cyber Safety and Education (CCSE) and (ISC)².