NIST, Woman-Owned Small Business Katzcy to Continue Cybersecurity Event Cooperation

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with Virginia-based digital marketing company Katzcy to bring together cybersecurity athletes to represent the U.S. at an international competition.

Both parties sealed a five-year pact to perform cooperative work through the U.S. Cyber Games, which the woman-owned small business and NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education program introduced last year, the agency said Friday.

Under the agreement, Katzcy’s PlayCyber division will use the NICE Workforce Framework to establish a standard for describing and performing work related to information technology security.

The lexicon will be implemented across recruitment, competitions and training initiatives for the games, the agency noted.

For the event’s second season, the partnership held a Draft Day last week in Washington, D.C., that involved information dissemination about IT security careers as well as onsite cybersecurity games.

The U.S. Cyber Games will serve as a venue from which practitioners are selected to undergo training and compete as a national team during the 2023 International Cybersecurity Competition.