Cyber Security Launch Party

Kenny McDaniel April 24, 2017

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My Background Project Manager •  IT Proposal for new equipment and network •  Started taking certification courses

Instructor for IT Training •  Saturday only class (8 hrs/day, no support, 20 students)

Started my company •  Training and testing •  Later network support and security counseling •  Customers: Retail, manufacturing, banking (network

support/security – audits) •  Interacted with auditors for banks

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Demand and Growth •  Forbes Magazine article states:

•  “… there are more than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the US unfilled. Cisco Systems puts the global figure at one million job openings. The demand is expected to rise to 6 million globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million” (Morgan 2016)

•  Denver Post (Chuang 2016):

•  “… there are 10,000 cybersecurity job openings here in Colorado”

•  “Some ideas: hire anthropologists, start kids earlier, hire the untrained”

•  Denver Post (Svaldi 2017):

•  “Greeley – 4th fasted growing city in the United States”

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Cyber Security Specialist Certificate

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Courses

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Courses and Certification Preparation

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Questions

For more information:

Kenny McDaniel kenny.mcdaniel@aims.edu (970) 339-6687 EDBH 134M

Cyber Security Launch Party

Kenny McDaniel April 24, 2017