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NICE Cybersecurity Career Ambassador Finder

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Please use this form to provide information about yourself, your background, your interests, and what activities you are providing as a Cybersecurity Career Ambassador. Please use the “Additional Information” text box to add details about your activities (speaking engagements, resources, special programs for veterans, for women, etc.)

If you have questions, please email nice [at] nist.gov (nice[at]nist[dot]gov).

Non-Endorsement: The NICE Cybersecurity Career Ambassador Finder is provided as a public service of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Users of the tool are not permitted to use the name of NIST in any advertisement, promotion, news release, or other type of statement, written or verbal, in any way that implies a NIST endorsement, certification or approval of any company, product or service.

OMB Control Number: 0690-0038
Expiration Date: 7/31/26

Ambassador Name *

Organization (optional)

Title *

Ambassador Email *

Country *

Zip code *

Additional Information about your background and expertise. (Optional, max 200 words)

Do not include sensitive personally identifiable information (PII).

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0693-0082. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately 10 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are voluntary. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the National Institute of Standards and Technology at: 100 Bureau Dr., Mail Stop 2000, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Attn: NICE Program Office, nice@nist.gov.

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3), this Privacy Act Statement serves to inform you of why the U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting the information on this form.

AUTHORITY:

The collection of this information is authorized under The National Institute of Standards and Technology Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. 271 et seq. (which includes Title 15 U.S.C. 272 and 275) and section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, Title IV of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Pub. L. 113-274 (2014)

PURPOSE:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NICE Program focuses on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce. The first objective in NICE’s Strategic Plan is to “Identify and share effective practices for promoting cybersecurity career awareness and discovery to diverse stakeholders.” To achieve this objective the Implementation Plan for the NICE Strategic Plan describes creating a Cybersecurity Career Ambassador program to promote cybersecurity career awareness, exploration, and development.

Information gathered in this collection will be utilized to establish a network of employers, educators, and others who serve as champions to prepare, grow, and sustain a diverse and skilled cybersecurity workforce where members of the public will have a single, central location to find and connect with Ambassadors.

ROUTINE USES:

The information solicited on this form may be made available as a “routine use” pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(a)(7) and (b)(3). The information may be made available to other federal agencies to assist the Department in connection with NIST’s management of the purposes stated above; or for other authorized routine uses.

A complete list of the routine uses can be found in the system of records notice associated with this form, “COMMERCE/DEPT-23: Information Collected Electronically in Connection with Department of Commerce Activities, Events, and Programs. This system of records notice can be found on the Department's website at https://www.commerce.gov/opog/privacy/SORN

CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION:

Providing this information is voluntary. However, failure to provide the requested information may result in an inability for NIST to process, review, and/or act on such requests. In limited circumstances, NIST may authorize the submission of the requested information via paper forms pursuant to the requirements in 15 CFR 748.1(d).

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