July 2023 NICE Community Coordinating Council Monthly Meeting Recap

#ICYMI - Monthly Meeting Recap



Join us on Tuesday September 26th, at our NEW RECURRING MEETING TIME for the NICE Community Coordinating Council (fourth Tuesday of every month from 3:30 to 5:00pm ET). We will not meet in August.


In case you missed last month's meeting, the minutes from the July 26, 2023, NICE Community Coordinating Council meeting have been published. The meeting included speakers from Moreno Valley Unified School District, Gartner, Towson University, Virginia Tech, and more!


Take a look at some key highlights from our meeting:


Standing Items


Report RoundupAlex Michaels from Gartner shared a presentation on Building a Culture of Security Consciousness, a report that introduces a framework that includes practices, influences, and platforms which all surround a security behavior and culture program.


Strategy StoriesTerry Downing-Harris from Towson University presented on Integrating Secure Supply Chain Risk Management into Software Engineering Curriculum. The proposed approach will aim to design learning modules that fit easily into any software engineering course. 


Framework FeatureDonna Woods from the Moreno Valley Unified School District shared how the district is using the NICE Framework to create cybersecurity academic pathways. Students are taught how to use the framework to aid in career development.


Research ReviewRamoni Lasisi from the Virginia Military Institute provided a briefing on a proposed Cybersecurity Workforce Readiness Recommender System (CyberReco). The system attempts to identify "readiness gaps" - the cybersecurity knowledge and skills one needs to gain to be workforce-ready.


Working Group and Community of Interest Updates


Project Updates


The NEW community coordinating council monthly meeting recap