A NICE Retrospective on Shaping Cybersecurity’s Future

Rodney Petersen has served as the Director of NICE at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for the past eleven years where his focus has been on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce development. He will be retiring from federal government service at the end of the 2025 calendar year. Prior to his role at NIST, he has worked in various technology policy and leadership roles with EDUCAUSE and the University of Maryland. The NICE program, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce, has its origins in the

Rodney Petersen

Rodney Petersen is the director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at NIST. He worked previously as the managing director of the EDUCAUSE Washington Office and director of IT Policy and Planning at the University of Maryland. When he is not evangelizing for increasing the cybersecurity talent pipeline, he volunteers as basketball commissioner for Savage Boys & Girls Club and spends time with his wife as #emptynestsurvivors.

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