Cybersecurity Comes to Española

Northern New Mexico College is launching a new Cybersecurity training program with help from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Los Alamos National Labs. The Cybersecurity series of classes are part of a recently accredited program backed by a three-year $433,000 NSF grant to create a workforce to protect against cyber threats. A “400-level” Information Assurances and Security class will be supplemented with virtual laboratories, or vLabs, and will assist students in applying the fundamental principles they learned about cybersecurity. The program will also include Internships and course work can be covered in a two-year timeframe and students can complete the program with a bachelor's degree in Information Engineering Technology with a concentration in cybersecurity. At LANL, entry-level jobs in cybersecurity pay annual salaries in the $70,000 to $80,000 range. Read more about it here.