The NIST Director, consulting agencies, industry, educators, the national laboratories, the NITRD programme and others, keeps coordinating a national programme of cybersecurity awareness and education that disseminates the technical standards and best practices the Director identifies, makes best practices usable by individuals, smaller businesses, schools and colleges and state, local and tribal governments, raises public awareness of cybersecurity and of safe and ethical behaviour online, improves understanding of the benefits of information technology risk management against the cost of failure and of methods to mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, supports formal cybersecurity education at all levels, and promotes evaluation and forecasting of federal workforce needs with recruitment, training and retention strategies; it leverages existing programmes that inform the public about product and service safety, including self-certification and independent assessment schemes, and the Director develops and implements a strategic plan for the programme, transmitted to the named committees within one year of enactment and every five years thereafter.
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