Why Digital Trust for Workforce?
Digital trust is the foundation of any business’s success. As per Callsign’s Digital Trust Index, cybercrime can cost $6 trillion annually, but even a 1% increase in digital trust can help grow global GDP by $596 per capita.
Yet, according to the World Bank, the global cybersecurity workforce gap reached a record 4 million vacancies in 2023, despite an 8.6% increase in the workforce. According to WEF, women represent just 24% of cybersecurity professionals. As digital trust becomes critical for all jobs, not just cybersecurity jobs, all workforces need skilling in digital trust.
Program Objectives
- Equip students with fundamental principles, strategies, and practices essential for cultivating and maintaining digital trust
- Gain knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the complexities of digital trust enhancing career outcomes
- Students from employability education institutions (for example, community colleges)
- Basic familiarity with digital technologies for digital trust foundations course
- Digital Safety - Understand the digital world, data credibility, and recognize cyber threats.
- Digital Security - Learn ethical information usage, understand technology's social dynamics, and gain data management skills.
- Digital Resilience - Participate actively in the digital society, adapt to changing digital demands, and improve problem-solving skills.
- High-level understanding of the security pipeline and trust-enhancing practices such as red and blue teaming.
Impact Stories
Empowering the workforce through digital trust and cybersecurity
Intel has been working with community colleges across the USA to implement the Digital Trust for Workforce program and bring cybersecurity and trust-enhacing skills to the tech-adjacent workforce. Colleges like Miami Dade College and Houston Community College have integrated the program into various business and AI courses, as well as standalone Digital Trust certificate courses.
