Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint

The U.S. Department of Labor is partnering with the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and other federal agencies to address the cybersecurity field's current job openings and longer-term job quality and retention issues. 

The Sprint seeks to:

• Increase awareness of current successful cybersecurity-related Registered Apprenticeship programs, partnerships, and initiatives and how they’re helping industry educate and train a skilled cybersecurity workforce to reduce cybersecurity risk.
• Advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) across cybersecurity occupations through Registered Apprenticeship, especially for historically underrepresented populations such as women and communities of color.
• Educate the public on the efforts the Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship is taking to accelerate the process by helping employers to launch programs in as little as 48 hours by using existing industry vetted and DOL- approved standards.
• Recruit employers to explore Registered Apprenticeship and partner with DOL and the Department of Commerce’s National Initiative for cybersecurity Education (NICE) to help meet critical Cybersecurity workforce needs of the Nation; and
• Connect career seekers to cybersecurity apprenticeship opportunities.

If you represent an organization looking to start, join, or expand a cybersecurity-related Registered Apprenticeship program, make sure to fill out the above Express Interest form. We will work with you to find or create a program to meet your business needs, with courses aligned to the specialty areas of The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework). If you want to browse available online or in-person cybersecurity-related courses that could be applied to your program, check out the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies Education and Training Catalog.