On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 08:54:24AM -0400, Jason Rotunno wrote:
>>Hi Jeff,
>>
>>Passing this along in case any CS students are interested in the Cyber
>>FastTrack program discussed at the beginning of the message.
>>
>>Jason
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:01 PM SANS NewsBites <newsbites at email.sans.org>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Annotated News Update from the Leader in Information Security Training,
>>> Certification and Research
>>> View this email as a web page
>>> <https://view.email.sans.org/?qs=7d86674830c364d7b5bce20c1781aad4c7312c3b72657d5d7ea590e6153ed8c5a9feadcb171a44761374e7e23d09c7a524cdc9f57fa1b046ed595904797d9d66>
>>>
>>> [image: SANS NewsBites - Annotated News Update from the Leader in
>>> Information Security Training, Certification and Research]
>>> April 09, 2019               Vol. 21, Num. 028
>>>
>>> *Do you know a college student who is interested in Cybersecurity? Check
>>> out Cyber FastTrack*
>>> Who is *Cyber FastTrack* for?
>>> · College students aged 18 and above who want to land a dream job in
>>> cybersecurity and earn further scholarships
>>> What's it all about?
>>> · A free online learning program to help college students quickly learn
>>> the skills they need to fast track their way to a cybersecurity career
>>> · As well as hours of free learning, students can earn scholarships for
>>> further study with SANS, or $500 towards college tuition
>>>
>>> *When is it open? · April 5 to May 10 www.cyber-fasttrack.org
>>> <http://www.cyber-fasttrack.org>*
>>>
>>> All U.S. colleges and college student get access to the cybersecurity
>>> talent test for 4 weeks.
>>>
>>> The talent test game at www.cyber-fasttrack.org enables colleges to find
>>> talented students who can be great part-time workers while in school and
>>> star cybersecurity professionals upon graduation. Although the site says
>>> SANS allows the program to be used only in the 27 states where the
>>> governors personally announced the program, the reality is that *all US
>>> college students are eligible to use the first phase called Assess*. If
>>> you find students who get 12-14 of the fun Assess challenges right, you
>>> have a superstar in the making. Colleges that have the most students
>>> playing report that the IT staff and/or computer science/IT program
>>> director or dean sent a note to students like the one above that has had a
>>> huge impact since Friday when the program opened.