Resolution designates National Cybersecurity Education Month

U.S. Rep. Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY) has introduced a resolution designating June as National Cybersecurity Education Month.

“In today’s hyper-connected world, cybersecurity is national security,” Garbarino,
ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation Subcommittee, said. “As our foreign adversaries grow increasingly sophisticated, it is more important than ever that we fill the cybersecurity talent pipeline to ensure that we can meet rising cyber threats and better protect our future. That starts with education.”

Garbarino said the action would promote the essential need to improve cybersecurity literacy among K-12 students.

U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), as well as U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), joined in presenting the resolution.

“As Chair of the Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, & Innovation Subcommittee, I have long pursued the solutions necessary towards protecting American interests and the American people in cyberspaces in the face of hostile powers bolstering their own cyber capabilities,” Clarke said. “While technological advances are significant in our efforts, they remain only half the equation. If we do not take the steps to provide our population with the cyber literacy necessary to detect and overcome these virtual threats, a daunting vulnerability will persist through our defenses.”

Rosen said as cyber threats have risen, he has prioritized legislation protecting students and teachers from cyber threats while equipping them with skills to prepare for the next generation of cyber jobs.