Statewide Cybersecurity Training Request Form

The Maryland Department of Labor, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Information Technology (DoIT) and the Employment Advancement Right Now (EARN) Maryland program grantee BCR Cyber will provide cybersecurity training to Maryland state and local government employees. This Statewide training will include BCR Cyber’s Cybersecurity Operational Methods Education Training (“COMET”) which consists of both Incumbent and Advanced Incumbent Training.

Training requests are only for State and Local Government Employees at this time.

State Requirements are as follows:

Employees who were not selected for prior Cyber Range training sessions,
Minimum satisfactory PEP rating, and
Whose IT role has direct or indirect responsibility for maintaining cybersecurity within their departments.

Local Requirements are as follows:

Local Managers (CIO, CISO, IT Director or their superior) must provide their recommendation for one qualified candidate to take the one per course via email to cyber.training@maryland.gov contact details should include Name/Email/Manager/Training Type [incumbent or advanced incumbent].
Whose IT role has direct or indirect responsibility for maintaining cybersecurity within their departments.

All training sessions will be conducted virtually. Testing will vary upon the course accepted for.

The Incumbent Training course provides an introduction / review of IT and cybersecurity concepts, tools, threats, and vulnerabilities. The course is broken down into the following three parts: Part 1: Command Line & Linux, Part 2: Introduction to the SIEM, and Part 3: Cyber Range Simulation.

Note:For Part 3, each session consists of two live 4-hour sessions, conducted from 9:00am to 1:00pm and 1:00pm to 5:00pm (only one four-hour session per day per group).

The Advanced Incumbent Training course includes cybersecurity training and preparation for CompTIA Security+ certification. Security+ certification is an industry standard that demonstrates the practitioner has the knowledge and skills required to securely administer and manage IT / cyber systems. Practitioners receive training in installation, configuration, and system management. Training topics include network devices, security appliances, threat basics, applications, and networks. The training material prepares students for threat analysis activities and outlines many risk mitigation techniques. The course includes a review of many cyber-attacks, including a general description of the attack, implementations, detection techniques and attack mitigation.

Training will be approximately five (5) weeks in length with two (2) hours per day.

If chosen to participate in this training opportunity:

Manager approval will be required to proceed in the process.
It is expected that all work to support your State or Local position will still need to be completed during the weeks of training.
A subsequent application form that captures certain demographic data will need to be completed. Participants may also be required to provide data upon completion of training.

For any additional questions, please email cyber.training@maryland.gov.