A compact of commitment by 35 states and 3 American territories has been signed for a cyber security partnership.  The commitment by each governor is for each of their governments to partner with state universities in the development of cyber policy, incident response, and cyber workforce shortages.

The nature of the compact has been executed through more than 30 governors signing a dozen executive orders, 17 initiatives and 14 signed legislation bills.  One example is Virginia’s recently-approved recipients of the Commonwealth’s first Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship established during the 2016 General Assembly Session which provides up to $20,000 in tuition assistance to full-time students pursuing cybersecurity degrees in return for one year of public service per scholarship.