{"id":1886,"date":"2019-04-29T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:49:23","slug":"adev-team-member-featured-in-npr-illinois-segment-on-cybersecurity-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/29\/adev-team-member-featured-in-npr-illinois-segment-on-cybersecurity-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"ADEV Team Member Featured in NPR Illinois Segment on Cybersecurity Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting IT systems and data from cybercriminals and bad actors has become a focus of many organizations.\u00a0 Everyone from Target to the Democratic Party have become victims of breaches, including Equifax &#8211; a company who claims to be in the business of protecting people\u2019s financial data, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/equifax-data-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exposed highly sensitive information of 143 million Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a huge gap between the cybersecurity positions that businesses and government organizations want to fill and the qualified candidates available to fill them.\u00a0 One issue is that typically these businesses and organizations want experienced and credentialed cybersecurity professionals, and there is a reluctance to hire entry level applicants \u2013 even if they have the educational background.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that the cybersecurity field is so dynamic that educational programs have trouble keeping their curriculum current.\u00a0 Even <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1887 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NPR_ILL-150x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" \/>someone who just received a degree may not be aware of the latest trends and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>One way to bridge the gap between the experience businesses are looking for and the qualified candidates seeking an opportunity is updated training and certifications through organizations such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comptia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> CompTIA<\/a> and sponsored internships through organizations such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/wecyberup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Midwest Cyber Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois NPR recently broadcast a story discussing this issue and potential resolutions &#8211; featuring a SuprTEK Team ADEV \u00a0information assurance apprentice, Weasle Forsythe.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nprillinois.org\/post\/rethinking-cybersecurity-education-meet-growing-demand#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read the related article or stream the broadcast segment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Don Reed is a Senior Technical Writer and Project Support Specialist with the ADEV program. His background includes engineering and programing, project management, quality management and process improvement, and business-technical communication. Don has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.A. in Communication from Saint Louis University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ADEV team member was recently featured on an NPR Illinois segment on cybersecurity skills.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[64,46,25],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-cybersecurity","tag-secure-coding","tag-web-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}