NIST opens Cybersecurity Career Week, October 19-24, 2026
NIST's cybersecurity insights blog announces Cybersecurity Career Week, a workforce-awareness campaign rather than a rule or supervisory action. It lists a schedule of webinars, an in-person NCCoE event and a social media challenge aimed at people considering cybersecurity careers, plus pointers to the NICE Framework and CyberSeek tools.
- Cybersecurity Career Week, led by NIST's NICE Program, runs October 19-24, 2026.
- A webinar titled "Networking Like a Leader" is scheduled for October 14, 2026 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
- The NCCoE is hosting an in-person Cybersecurity Connections event on October 15, 2026 from 11:00 AM-1:30 PM ET.
- A six-day #mycyberjob media challenge runs across X, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn from October 19-24, 2026.
- Additional webinars on breaking into cybersecurity and student career pathways are scheduled for October 20 and October 21, 2026.