{"id":36950,"date":"2021-06-25T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36950"},"modified":"2021-06-25T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:10:00","slug":"senators-roll-out-cyber-workforce-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36950","title":{"rendered":"Senators roll out cyber workforce bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sens.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwmfpvf_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwmfpvf_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624755551099000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxh4hifdD8FpBN4WGbwLibCrku1w\">Maggie Hassan<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.H.) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hvcmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqvwhsh_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hvcmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqvwhsh_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624755551099000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEIjSIE3lCwkCLXU-65P4Y8_hCyug\">John Cornyn<\/a>\u00a0(R-Texas) on Friday introduced legislation meant to tackle parts of the government\u2019s cyber workforce shortage.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmdqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmkmnwdq_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmdqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmkmnwdq_rlkcggnrnpcvrkvgvggw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624755551099000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1VRAeyPXvkpvXCDV4MC4Cbdd78g\">Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act<\/a>\u00a0would establish a cybersecurity apprenticeship program at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with creating a program at the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with cybersecurity training.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced in the wake of months of escalating cyberattacks aimed at critical U.S. organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan pointed to the escalating attacks on Friday in stressing that \u201cour national cybersecurity infrastructure is woefully lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said in a separate statement that \u201ccyber threats are evolving each day, and we must have a workforce prepared to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sens.\u00a0Maggie Hassan\u00a0(D-N.H.) and\u00a0John Cornyn\u00a0(R-Texas) on Friday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36951,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions\/36951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}