In addition to providing free, certificate-oriented curriculum to more than 1,000 community colleges, Microsoft will train faculty at 150 schools and provide scholarships to 250,000 students.
Thursday that it's launching a national campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. by 2025, including by providing free curriculum to every public community college.The company's president Brad Smith warned that the current workforce shortage is at crisis levels and threatens to undermine the country's ability to protect itself against cyber and ransomware attacks.
About 263,000 people have joined the cybersecurity workforce in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021 — and yet the number of open cyber jobs still has increased by 17,000, according to aOne-third of all cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled due to the workforce shortage, according to Microsoft. The gap is currently estimated to be nearly 500,000 open jobs, which Microsoft believes it can halve in the next four years.
The company believes that the 11.8 million Americans who currently attend community colleges are the "single greatest potential asset" the U.S. can leverage to solve the skilled labor shortage while also helping diversify a cyber workforce dominated by white men.this year to invest $20 billion over years in cybersecurity, including $150 million to help shore up federal government protections.
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