MHCC Cybersecurity and Networking Team Ranks Third in National Competition
In an increasingly networked world, in which doing your banking, shopping and investing online is commonplace, securing financial, customer and personal data has become big business — a business that experts expect will continue to grow, and has Mt. Hood Community College’s Cybersecurity program poised to fill those in-demand jobs.
Research firm Cybersecurity Ventures released a forecast of the cybersecurity sector that projects global spending on cybersecurity products and services will exceed $1 trillion cumulatively from 2017 to 2021. The firm estimated an expected year-over-year growth of 12 to 15 percent through 2021.