MANILA, PHILIPPINES – To assist them in offering cybersecurity courses, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has teamed with an educational firm.
In a news release on Tuesday, TESDA said it signed a partnership with CybersCool Defcon, Inc. on March 6 to provide skills training, assessment, and certification on cybersecurity and other information technology-related skills.
“Through this collaboration, we can ensure a secure and reliable cyberspace for every Filipino, TESDA can now provide training to confront emerging risks, threats, and attacks on [cyberspace] and cyber terrorism in the country,” TESDA Secretary Suharto Mangudadatu said during the partnership signing ceremony.
Both institutions will develop, enhance, and validate TESDA’s competency standards, training regulations, competency-based curriculum, and assessment tools. TESDA said CybersCool would donate facilities, equipment, supplies, and software.
While TESDA courses are open to everyone, TESDA stated that the partnership with CybersCool targets those 18 and above, high school graduates, the unemployed, and the underemployed.
Other beneficiaries from the public sector will also be accepted per TESDA’s agreement with concerned government agencies or instrumentalities.
“These training courses support the policy directives on cybersecurity given by our President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as embodied in the National Cybersecurity Plan of 2023-2028, which calls on the entire public and private sectors to give utmost priority in addressing and responding to the threats involving the recent waves of cyberattacks and cybercrimes in the country,” CybersCool chair Reynato stated.
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