GAO offers recommendations to assess performance of NIST cyber education initiative

The Government Accountability Office recommends the creation of a plan to evaluate the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cyber education initiative in a report that offers ways to measure the effectiveness of the program.

The report focuses on the NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, the agency’s flagship program for building and sustaining the cybersecurity workforce in collaboration with key stakeholders. The program has developed a cyber workforce framework and holds an annual conference to discuss workforce challenges...