Harvard opened a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded center for city governance training and research at its Kennedy School.

On the Priorities podcast, New York City CISO Kelly Moan says the city’s Cyber Academy taught 21 city workers to serve as cyber liaisons.

On the Priorities Podcast, Indiana’s Jon Rogers says a workforce program is getting residents trained and working in the state IT shop.

"Everyone in IT has to be a cyber person," Maryland CISO Chip Stewart said of a program that will fund cyber training for 100 state workers.

Training and education can help as more state and local governments transition to cloud-based services, Arizona and Minnesota’s state CIOs said.

Organizers said the platform's low cost and portability are promising for a profession short on training resources.

The public safety technology firm Mission Critical Partners has begun offering cybersecurity courses designed for emergency responders.

The National Cybersecurity Center's new campaign is aimed at improving awareness among the state legislators who fund IT and cybersecurity policies.

The state's Office of Technology now offers paid on-the-job training through the State Earn and Learn program, emphasizing aptitude over experience.

Today's aging, analog 911 systems are largely insulated from cyberattacks. But soon they'll be plugged into everything else that gets hacked.