Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi Joins ISACA to Discuss Investment in Workforce Development and STEM Education to Counter Economic Threats Posed by the CCP
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) joined the IT governance organization ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) to discuss workforce development and cybersecurity in the greater Chicago area. The visit comes less than one month after the Committee released a bipartisan report highlighting, among other policy suggestions, the need for federal action to protect and defend against Intellectual Property (IP) theft and the importance of greater investment in workforce development and STEM education to counter economic threats posed by the CCP.
Congressman Krishnamoorthi released the following statement applauding the work of ISACA and its recent launch of its new organizational cybersecurity update, CMMI 3.0., which will improve cybersecurity for tech companies, small businesses, and government contractors, and CSX-P, its updated certification that helps individuals grow as cybersecurity professionals.
“I am grateful to ISACA for hosting today’s discussion of workforce development and cybersecurity. As my Select Committee’s bipartisan economic report last month noted, as our world grows increasingly dependent on technology, the importance of investing in training and retraining our workforce to meet those demands only grows. ISACA has led the way in setting effective training standards for cyber security professionals to meet these demands while also establishing its Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) which has been a global gold standard for performance improvement in service, product, and software development. ISACA’s latest update will help companies reduce their vulnerability to these types of cyber-attacks and intellectual property theft that threaten our economic competitiveness with the CCP. As my committee noted in our report, we cannot meet the technological demands of the future without meeting the cybersecurity and workforce development demands of today.”
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