Corporations are increasingly partnering with community colleges to support cybersecurity education and training. The effort is meant to diversify and increase the ranks of the cybersecurity workforce.
When Microsoft recently announced plans to provide cybersecurity instructional training to faculty at 150 community colleges across the country and scholarships and other financial support to 25,000 community college students studying cybersecurity, company officials said the decision was motivated in part by the severe shortage of skilled cyber professionals.