SIUE hosted over 100 Metro East high school students for the Security Advisor Alliance Secure Pathways cybersecurity career pathways workshop.

Andrew Wilder, Ryan Brennell, Brad Liggett and Larry Whiteside Jr. led four engaging discussions about Artificial Intelligence for the March 2024 Washington University Cybersecurity Roundtable

St. Louis University welcomed the Alliance Secure Pathways Series of workshops on March 20th, 2024. Students were shown pathways into the career field of cybersecurity and introduced to working professionals in the industry.

St. Louis region information security professionals showed up for local high school students at a cybersecurity career awareness workshop hosted by St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley Campus. Multiple education partners including GHECC, The Global Center for Cybersecurity, St. Louis Community College and others collaborated to bring the program together.

John Johnson, founding member of the Alliance and his crew of security professionals in the Quad Cities area of Iowa recently helped support a K-12 student tech camp and used the Alliance CTF as a teaching tool!

Mind The Gap, the Security Advisor Alliance’s quarterly newsletter pays homage to the warning many see when walking onto the tube in downtown London. We, in the cyber industry, know it to be the devastating gap of talent we are experiencing in the career field of information security.

The 2023 Converge Tour made a stop in Chicago Illinois on Tuesday March 21st, to speak with nearly 100 Chicago Public School Students about career availability in cybersecurity.

The Security Advisor Alliance (SAA) has created a program intended to grow a qualified “pool” of CISO/CSO qualified candidates. The idea is to take advantage of the legacy expertise and experiences of current senior level CSO/CISO’s to help emerging candidates be better prepared to step into those roles. We will make it happen through a unique offering of working sessions between a potential candidate (one at a time), a panel of established CISOs, and one on one time with panel members.

The Alliance Staff and partners in St. Louis have engaged four high school students in a mini cyber internship over the course of 12 weeks this spring. The students are exploring careers in cybersecurity and will visit several businesses to meet real working cyber professinoals and learn about their jobs.

The Alliance Quarterly newsletter, Mind The Gap, pays homage to our friends in the UK that understand this to be a warning, painted on the floor of many tube stations, warning of the space between platform and train. We at the Alliance however know the gap to be the plague of too little talent, entering our career field.