The Cybersecurity Program will educate city leadership and staff regarding federal cybersecurity funding policies and programs, and provide opportunities for course registrants to acquire the highest priority and value cybersecurity training and select solutions to secure their organizations against cyber threats. The program will be inherently different from other market approaches because of the holistic focus on educating leadership/management while upskilling existing staff by employing a decentralized collaborative model/platform to facilitate extremely low-cost force multiplication of existing staff capabilities.
Depending on your state, multiple funding avenues are open. Contact NLCU for more information on how to use these funding sources to your advantage.
Key Takeaways:
Municipalities and critical infrastructure entities that choose to participate will enjoy the following benefits:
- Acquire an internal cyber security capability that is responsive to their specific circumstances and priorities
- Prepare for and mitigate the destructive impacts of ransomware and critical infrastructure attacks that typically involve substantial financial costs and disruption of core services
- Enable participating communities and infrastructure entities with a program to provide career pathways in cyber security to their employees
- Create an internal cyber security capability as a cost-effective alternative to outsourcing the function
- Gain access to up-to-date collective cyber defense solutions to trending threats and go-to, on-demand, network resources in the event of an incident
- Elevate operational awareness and capabilities for city and critical infrastructure management
- Realize benefits from NLC’s Good Jobs, Great Cities workforce initiative with the Department of Labor
- Complete key cyber risk mitigations and proactive remediations
Pricing: $12,000
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Note
Exact timing has not yet been confirmed for the program but will likely start mid-September with a 13-week duration.