Canadian cybersecurity firm, SDOCCA Cyber Inc., will be in Barbados next week to meet the first cohort of students in the Cyber Nations Training Initiative.
The programme was created in Canada with the bold mission of training 100,000 people from the Caribbean and Africa as cybersecurity operations analysts, incident responders, and cyber literacy coordinators.
On Thursday, March 23, SDOCCA Cyber Inc. will meet and greet the students and a range of officials from the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training including personnel from the Student Revolving Loan Fund, at a reception at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St. Michael.
The event, which runs from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m., will be addressed by Education Minister, Kay McConney, as well as representatives from the Student Revolving Loan Fund and Cyber Nations.