{"id":221730,"date":"2026-03-09T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:45:09","slug":"north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Interns Help Identify Cyber Threats to State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state\">North Carolina Interns Help Identify Cyber Threats to State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 17:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    North Carolina officials continue efforts to build the state cybersecurity workforce through its internship partnership between the Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) and the Carolina Cyber Network.<\/p>\n<p>This week, NCDIT highlighted the work of two interns within the department\u2019s Enterprise Security and Risk Management Office, where they are being trained to identify and mitigate potential cybersecurity threats, according to a news release. The students are part of a larger-scale program with multiple cohorts, HR support, visible recruitment and dedicated funding.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity interns work alongside the state\u2019s cyber workforce, with Carolina Cyber Network supporting that budget, NCDIT HR manager John Alexander told Government Technology last fall. The partnership was announced in July.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019c-d44a-d73c-a39c-d4fedff10000\"\/><br \/>Intern Jennifer Medina, a Wake Technical Community College graduate, was highlighted by NCDIT for recently flagging a suspicious email containing a malicious URL, initiating a systemwide purge, and blocking the URL, the news release said. Of note, email scams account for a major portion of cyber attacks and have been greatly enhanced with the use of AI.<\/p>\n<p>Fayetteville Technical Community College student and Army veteran Jacob Wright \u201cdetected an attempted account compromise before automated alerts were triggered and quickly escalated the issue so his team could isolate and disable the threat,\u201d the release said. Both Wright and Medina are pursuing cybersecurity careers and are supervised by Albert Moore, an IT security and compliance manager at NCDIT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are lots of places to fit in cybersecurity, and I believe it\u2019s a strong career choice,\u201d he said in the release. \u201cPublic service is a calling. The reward is knowing the data you\u2019re protecting is your data, your family\u2019s information and the systems people rely on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Interns Help Identify Cyber Threats to State https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/north-carolina-interns-help-identify-cyber-threats-to-state Publish Date: 2026-03-09 17:39:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c145f0e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x996+0+163\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fa6%2F9f%2Fb846b4f64f8b962a513768fd7f1b%2F54811931725-a7b36aa894-k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-221730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221732,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221730\/revisions\/221732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}