{"id":280827,"date":"2026-06-24T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/indiana-invests-in-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:30:11","slug":"indiana-invests-in-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/indiana-invests-in-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana invests in statewide cybersecurity pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/indiana-launches-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/823658\/\">Indiana invests in statewide cybersecurity pathway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/indiana-launches-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/823658\/\">https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/indiana-launches-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/823658\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 16:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.k12dive.com\">www.k12dive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">4 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Indiana is expanding cybersecurity pathways for high school students this fall through a statewide initiative with partners including College Board, Ivy Tech Community College, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Defense Council, and <span><span>Project Lead the Way<\/span><\/span>, an Indiana-based nonprofit STEM curriculum provider.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The initiative will build an academic pathway from Advanced Placement Cybersecurity and Project Lead The Way cybersecurity courses offered in high schools to two- and four-year colleges, the Indiana National Guard and other employers, according to the Indiana Department of Education.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Indiana National Guard has flagged cybersecurity education as a priority for homeland protection, Katie Jenner, Indiana Secretary of Education,\u00a0said. Cybersecurity coursework is currently offered in 69 high schools around the state, with plans to expand to 200 over the next three years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Katie Jenner, Indiana Secretary of Education, said the state has been talking about how to prepare students to both work in the cybersecurity field and know how to better protect themselves and others from cyber threats.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cThere\u2019s daily conversation about how to make sure we are as ready as possible and continuing our preparation for potential cybersecurity threats,\u201d she said. \u201cThat has hit home for Indiana, and that has hit home for our national security. \u2026 It hits home in the education sector.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The state recently faced cybersecurity breaches when data was allegedly stolen from a couple of major education-related vendors that had contracts in the state, Jenner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cIt\u2019s all very real,\u201d she said. \u201cWe had been talking about&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/indiana-launches-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/823658\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana invests in statewide cybersecurity pathway https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/indiana-launches-statewide-cybersecurity-pathway\/823658\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24 16:03:00 Source Domain: www.k12dive.com Listen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/Bgp6aCJe5nNYJsuTrCA5GV6dPLaADM4WVQ29Z_xYpDc\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS8xMjE0NTAzNzMwNDI3MDg0LktsbFU3OWR0V0lWOEhneFczTERrX2hlaWdodDY0MC5wbmc=.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-280827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827"}],"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=280827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280829,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827\/revisions\/280829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}