Internet Security Alliance, higher education group urge lawmakers to fund virtual cyber academy

The Internet Security Alliance and Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges have written to congressional appropriators urging $200 million in fiscal 2024 funding for the virtual cybersecurity training academy approved in the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

“The nation faces a severe, and growing, cyber threat from multiple adversaries. Funding a virtual cybersecurity academy is the only way to create a workforce to combat these threats,” AGB president and CEO Henry Stoever and ISA president and CEO...