The Maryland Association of Community Colleges (MACC), an advocacy group for Maryland’s 16 community colleges, and BCR Cyber, a provider of cybersecurity training services, have received a $935,680 grant to help fund their Cyber Workforce Accelerator (CWA).

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a Jan. 10 report on adoption of the agency’s cross-sector cyber performance goals that finds four critical infrastructure sectors are seeing decreased cyber threats since putting the performance goals in place.

Six new universities and colleges are joining the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) program that aims to boost the intel workforce and recruit future intelligence professionals.

The National Science Foundation has awarded new CyberCorps Scholarships for Service (SFS) totaling nearly $15 million to four public universities with the aim of boosting the cybersecurity workforces at Federal, state, local, and Tribal government organizations.

On Dec. 5, Rhode Island was informed that its RIBridges data system was the target of a potential cyberattack. The RIBridges system centralizes and automates the process of applying for state benefits and determining who does not qualify for them.

The Indiana Office of Technology (IOT), through a partnership with Purdue University and Indiana University (IU), will now provide no-cost cybersecurity assessments for water and wastewater treatment facilities in the state.

The University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute (OCII) has launched the state’s first cyber range. The cyber range aims to rapidly expand services to protect and defend Oklahoma-based organizations from cyber threats.

All K-12 public schools in Rhode Island will begin using by the end of the current school year a new cybersecurity tool that will better protect their schools’ data and systems, according to a press release from the White House.

More than 87 percent of all cyber threats took place over encrypted networks this year, a new Zscaler ThreatLabz report finds. The solution, the cybersecurity company says, lies in adopting zero trust security architectures.

National Cyber Director Harry Coker announced a new toolkit to help build and strengthen cybersecurity ecosystems during an event at Hinds Community College in Mississippi.