Growing Cybersecurity Talent

This summer, the National Security Agency's College of Cyber hosted 43 cybersecurity camps across the country for middle and high school students and their teachers. The camps cover online threats, basic cyber defenses, and the ethics of operating in the virtual world.

Steven LaFountain, dean of the College of Cyber and the man behind the GenCyber summer program, hopes that the camps will help address the severe shortfall of cybersecurity professionals in the United States by encouraging ri