{"id":279539,"date":"2026-06-23T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:25:27","slug":"pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt CyberCamp fosters interest in growing cybersecurity field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/education-classroom\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/\">Pitt CyberCamp fosters interest in growing cybersecurity field<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/education-classroom\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/\">https:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/education-classroom\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 10:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"triblive.com\">triblive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khadija Hassan knows that with great power comes great responsibility with the skills she\u2019s learning at the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s CyberCamp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m interested in threat hunting,\u201d said Hassan, a rising senior at Keystone Oaks High School. \u201cYou run different tasks to see if someone is trying to attack you. You check for people and investigate their digital footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hassan, 17, of Castle Shannon, is one of 180 campers at this week\u2019s Air Force Association CyberCamp, now in its 10th year. It\u2019s held in Oakland and, this year for the first time, at Pitt\u2019s Greensburg campus.<\/p>\n<p>The free, weeklong camp teaches cybersecurity principles, ethics, skills and future career opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, more than 1,400 students have completed the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPittsburgh is doing a good job of recognizing that cybersecurity is a need,\u201d said Beth Schwanke, executive director of Pitt\u2019s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. \u201cWe also have education and training opportunities to fill it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwanke said that, while demand for the camp has remained consistently high, the students\u2019 skill levels in technology and cybersecurity have increased. She attributes that to more area high schools offering cybersecurity programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started 10 years ago, there wasn\u2019t much cybersecurity being offered in schools,\u201d Schwanke said. \u201cThe really exciting thing is that there are schools now teaching cybersecurity, and those kids are coming to camp and still learning new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A June study from Cyber.org found that 41% of educators nationwide reported their students receive cybersecurity education \u2014 slightly lower than it was in 2020. Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports more than 572,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a ton of open cybersecurity jobs in the United States and that\u2019s changing due to artificial intelligence,\u201d Schwanke said. \u201cWhat the market&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/education-classroom\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitt CyberCamp fosters interest in growing cybersecurity field https:\/\/triblive.com\/news\/education-classroom\/pitt-cybercamp-fosters-interest-in-growing-cybersecurity-field\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-23 10:22:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets-varnish.triblive.com\/2026\/06\/9691059_web1_ptr-PittCyberCamp1-062226.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-279539","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\/279539"}],"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=279539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279541,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279539\/revisions\/279541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}