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the White House is ramping up its effort
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to protect Americans from online attacks
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with hundreds of thousands of open jobs
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Across the Nation in the Cyber sector
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they need more people to defend against
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attackers Gina cattigan spoke to the new
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director of the nation's cyber security
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about what the biggest threats are and
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how they're protecting people from them
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a local organization is teaming up with
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universities to get more people into the
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cyber security job Force the
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Pennsylvania Cyber security Center will
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offer a course through mer HST
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University in Erie for neurode Divergent
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high schoolers such as a child with ADD
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or Autism to get started in the field we
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have this significant U disparity in the
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number of Jobs versus the number of
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people who are entering cyber security
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and one of the goals of ours is to get
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students at this early age and to just
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open them up to the opportunity in
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Pennsylvania there are 12,000 open cyber
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security jobs and another 12,000 in Ohio
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meanwhile White House officials say
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cyber crime is on the rise nearly
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doubling in the past year without people
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in the Cyber jobs America's security is
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at risk our adversaries are going after
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those that are least capable of
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Defending themselves like Schools
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they're going after our hospitals
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they're going after houses of Faith the
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cyber attacks usually originate in
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countries like China North Korea Russia
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and Iran the attackers are always coming
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up with new ways to break in the only
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way to stay ahead is to make it more
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more costly for them to attack and to
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have creative thinkers on the job as
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Defenders they need to recognize that
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they're in a fight uh not with an enemy
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we necessarily see or touch physically
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but our threats are always there with
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more local news I'm G cigan
