CAE MODELS FOR THE EXPANSION OF CYBERSECURITY KNOWLEDGE IN THE U.S

The United States is in need of a new paradigm in the development of cybersecurity knowledge and skills: one that democratizes them for all people. The Cybersecurity Academic Excellence (CAE) model is an effective foundation that can be expanded to accomplish this democratized effect for a distributed model of cybersecurity. Options discussed for this expansion via cybersecurity teaching projects across multiple domains include workforce skills training. Those domains range from computer science, engineering, human development and learning, and law enforcement, integrating the fundamental computing skills curricula of both middle and high schools as well as postsecondary studies in non-computing areas, from psychology to the humanities. This integrated approach is the essence of democratic cybersecurity.