Cryptome posted Cyber Security Courses for Officials and Veterans
When you visit the Federal Virtual Training Environment (FedVTE) homepage, the FAQ for Spring 2016 (PDF) advises:
Who can take FedVTE training?
FedVTE courses are offered at no cost to government personnel, including contractors, and to U.S. veterans.…
Can the general public register on this site and take courses?
No, these courses are not available to the general public.
Cybersecurity is in the news on a daily basis, citizens being victimized right and left, yet the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies denies those same citizens the ability to develop the skills necessary to protect themselves.
While at the same time offering free training to government personnel and contractors, who operated the Office of Personnel Management like a sieve (21.5 million victims). Not to mention the NSA, which seems to have a recurrent case of USB-disease.
For reasons known only to the U.S. government, it lacks the ability or interest in protecting its citizens from repeated cyber-attacks.
The least it can do is open up the Federal Virtual Training Environment (FedVTE) to all citizens.
Or as Randy Newman almost said:
…if you won’t take care of us
Won’t you please, please let us do [it ourselves]?”
From “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)”
Enough freebies for contractors at the federal teat. How about a benefit or two for ordinary citizens?