Today’s cybersecurity industry is expected to grow by almost $100 billion dollars by 2020. That means that there will be an unprecedented number of jobs to fill to meet the demand and keep to our economic and national security intact. Job postings for cybersecurity positions have increased 74% in the past five years, with a global projection of 1.5 million unfilled jobs over the next five years. Many are calling the increasing shortage of workers a national crisis.
Northrop Grumman will host an online event to discuss Building the Cyber Workforce from 10:00-11:00am on Friday, 28 October 2016. The discussion features UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski and two UMBC alumni: Lauren Mazzoli (’15 CS, Math) who is currently a Northrop Grumman Cyber Software Engineer and Eric Conn (’85 CS) who is the founder and CEO of Leverege and a bwtech@UMBC Cync Incubator participant. The discussion will be moderated by Tom Temin of Federal News Radio.
You can watch the discussion live this Friday on the Web, tweet questions to @NGCNews and follow @UMBC, which will be live tweeting the #NGcyber event. If you are on campus, join us in ITE325 to watch the event and discuss it afterward.