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APUS Center of Cyber Defense Executive Director Dr. Kenneth Williams Named to New Advisory Council at The Cyber AB
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public University System today announced its Executive Director of the APUS Center for Cyber
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[{"type":"text","content":"CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public University System today announced its Executive Director of the APUS Center for Cyber Defense, Dr. Kenneth L. Williams, has been appointed to The Cyber AB's Academic Advisory Council (AAC). The newly formed Council is an independent consortium of leaders and subject matter experts; it represents a diverse cross-section of academic institutions within the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ecosystem.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"I'm excited to collaborate with other cyber experts as we study how to further reduce digital risk to the Department of Defense's contractor network in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB),\" said Williams, a U.S. Army veteran who serves as Interim Department Chair for Cybersecurity at APUS and holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. \"This is an area critical to our national security, and academia can play an increasingly important role to improve our posture and innovate.\"\nThe Cyber AB, the exclusive CMMC non-governmental implementation partner of the DoD, is the official accreditation body of the CMMC ecosystem. It is the sole authorized non-governmental partner of the U.S. Department of Defense in implementing and overseeing the CMMC cybersecurity standard.\n\"The Council is bringing together recognized leaders from higher education to confer with us as we support DoD in implementing CMMC,\" said Melanie Kyle Gingrich, Vice President for Training and Certification at The Cyber AB, who also serves as Chair of AAC.\nWilliams' appointment comes just four months after APUS announced its partnership with the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) to help strengthen the country's cyber posture.\n\"I'm excited to be working closely with Dr. Williams and the many other innovative thinkers on our Council to focus on such a key issue that reaches across the cyber space,\" said Paul Michaels, Vice Chair of the Cyber AB and an alumnus of American Military University (AMU).\nAPUS offers a strong cyber-defense focused curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels through AMU and American Public University (APU). With online courses in intrusion, incident handling, IT security, and digital forensics, APUS's cybersecurity programs integrate multiple disciplines to ensure students gain the criti...