Tech group backs cyber ‘apprenticeship’ bill, launches tool to assist industry

Information technology association CompTIA is working with lawmakers to advance legislation that would establish technology “apprenticeships” to help build a cybersecurity workforce, while launching a new professional association to help attract workers into the tech industry and assist them with maintaining careers.

CompTIA Tuesday launched the Association of Information Technology Professionals, an organization that will offer prospective and current technology professionals the ability to establish and advance a career in cybersecurity and related fields, helping establish a “pipeline” of workers...