Infosec Institute partners with VetJobs - Provides Cyber Scholarships to Vets and Military Spouses

MADISON, Wis. - April 19, 2022 - PRLog -- Infosec Institute, the leading cybersecurity education company, today announced a new Infosec Gives Partner, VetJobs, a leading veteran charity organization providing job placement and ongoing career progression to veterans, transitioning military and military spouses.

The Infosec Gives Partner Program enables partners to award three annual Infosec Accelerate Scholarships — fully funded by Infosec — through their organization. Each Infosec Accelerate Scholarship provides qualified recipients lifetime access to Infosec Skills, the leading security and IT skill development platform with over 1,000 hours of hands-on cybersecurity training. Each lifetime Infosec Accelerate Scholarship is valued at $15,000.

As the second official Infosec Gives partner, VetJobs will award three scholarships to a  transitioning service member, veteran, national guardsman, reservist, or military spouse, enabling  them to build and enhance their cybersecurity skills. Beyond the annual scholarships, the Infosec and VetJobs partnership provides discounted online technical training opportunities to VetJobs technology program participants through the Infosec Skills platform.

"We've been committed to helping veterans and military spouses find meaningful employment for  over 15 years," says Stacy Bayton, VetJobs Sr. Executive Vice President. "Partnerships like this  are critical to ensuring that our military, veterans, and military spouses have the skills they need  for placement in high demand, high growth careers. We look forward to expanding our work with  Infosec and increasing the placement of veterans and military spouses into key cyber roles around the world."

Infosec's technical skill development platform, Infosec Skills, includes over 1,200 learning resources to assess teams and close skills gaps with hands-on cyber ranges, labs, projects and courses mapped to the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity and the MITRE ATT&CK® Matrix for Enterprise.

"This partnership will set up our veterans for a rewarding career in a booming industry and help fill the millions of open cyber roles worldwide with these talented individuals. We look forward to extending our Infosec Skills resources to help place veterans and their families in these critical cyber roles," said Jack Koziol, Infosec SVP, GM and founder.

Scholarship applications open April 18, 2022 and close May, 13 2022.

The mission of VetJobs.org and MilitarySpouseJobs.org is to expand employment opportunities  for transitioning service members, veterans, National Guardsmen, reservists, and military spouses.  It has run the most successful career assistance model for more than a decade and its family of  websites has become the #1 online resource for military-affiliated job seekers looking to attain a  rewarding career and maximize their earnings. VetJobs along with its sister websites are the very  first charity organizations to surpass 77,000 confirmed hires helping transitioning service  members, veterans, National Guardsmen, reservists, and military spouses connect to high-earning  careers.