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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling for the National Security Agency (NSA) to be split from U.S. Cyber Command.

Rep. Adam SchiffAdam SchiffSchiff advocates for NSA, Cyber Command split Schiff to Trump: End casual talk on North Korea Why an independent counsel is necessary in an election probe MORE (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said it would be wise to have separate leaders for the two organizations, pushing for a civilian head of the NSA during remarks at Columbia Law School in New York.

The Pentagon told The Hill earlier this year that it has startedassessingwhether it should split up the dual-hat leadership.

Those are two very big jobs housed under the same hat, Schiff said. I think we would be wise to split up those responsibilities.

Experts have noted that the split is likely to happen eventually, but have warned of the risks of separating them too quickly. Cyber Command was established at NSA headquarters in 2009 and has been largely dependent on the agency.

Schiff made the comments in response to a question of whether or not the federal government has the appropriate organization structure to be effective on cyber.

More generally, he said that the government is slow to keep pace with technology and indicated that there are organizational improvements to be made.

Were probably not structured how we should be, Schiff said, adding later, were always going to be chasing this.

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Although the gender wage gap is more complicated than a broad cents-on-the-dollar figure, Glassdoor's latest report suggests that certaincollege majors not only impact career paths, but salary disparities in the first five years after graduation.

The majors with the biggest gender pay gaps favoring men:

* Health care administration (men earn 22% more)

*Mathematics (18%)

*Biology (13%)

The majors with the biggest gender pay gaps favoring women:

*Architecture (women earn 14% more)

*Music (10.1%)

*Social work (8.4%)

Nine of the 10 highest paying majors are male-dominated. By contrast, six of the 10 lowest paying majors are female-dominated.

Even with the same major, men and women face unequal pay through sorting into different jobs after graduating that pay differently. According to Glassdoor's chief economist Andrew Chamberlain:

In the case of health care administration, men from this major gravitate toward more senior roles like quality specialist, data consultant, and implementation consultant, while women often take jobs as administrative assistant, customer care representative and intern. What we see in this study is that men in these health care administration roles are being fast-tracked toward higher-paying jobs despite similar majors as women. In mathematics and biology, we see a similar phenomenon.

Chamberlain says the study can't explain why this is happening, only that it's real and contributing to the gender pay gap. Read the full study here. LD

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Microsoft already fixed most of those NSA security holes before they were leaked - Fast Company

Mike Steinmetz will make $176,419 a year to advise the governor on digital security policy.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Gina Raimondo has appointed Mike Steinmetz, a former National Grid and National Security Agency manager, as Rhode Island's first cybersecurity officer.

Steinmetz, who started Monday, will be Raimondo's top adviser on digital security policy and lead the creation of a state cybersecurity strategy, according to a news release Tuesday from the governor's office.

"Modern infrastructure is more than just roads and bridges," Raimondo said the release. "It's also the digital connections we're making faster and more frequently than ever before."

Steinmetz will make $176,419 a year, according to Raimondo spokesman David Ortiz.

The cybersecurity officer position was created in the state budget approved by lawmakers last year and reports to the director of administration. It is not considered a cabinet position and does not require state Senate confirmation, Ortiz said.

Before joining state government, Steinmetz was a National Grid director of strategy and planning and director of governance and compliance. Before that, he worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.

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A new cybersecurity summer camp is giving middle and high school girls a head start at a career intech.

The program, called GenCyber, will be entirely free thanks to theNational Security Agency (NSA), which is footing the bill fortuition, boarding andregistration fees for all participants. The NSAs goal forthe campis to inspire young people to direct their talents toward cybersecurity careers they believe are critical to national and economic security.

Another goal is to increase diversity in tech. Currently, women earn only 28 percent of computer science degrees, own only fivepercent of startups and hold only 11 percent of executive positions at Silicon Valley companies.

With the shortage of women in technology fields, anything we can do to encourage young women to explore STEM careers can only be good, said Jose-Marie Griffiths, president of Dakota State University, which will beone of the camps two locations.The other host campus isSouth Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Both were launched inSouth Dakota as an effort by the universities, because itsbeen identified as one of the industry sectors with the highest potential inthe state.

Core sessions at the camps will focus on cybersecurity, programming, networking and robotics. Students also have a choice of electives including multimedia forensics, socket programming, password cracking, iRobot create, network forensics, web hacking and 3-D printing.

At the DSU camp, an FBI Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) will present ondigital forensics, and twospeakers from Google will discuss security and privacy.There will also be a cyber sleuth escape room, and Access Data, a leading forensics company, will be hostinghands-on labs with social media and web traffic.

The SD Mines camp features a collaboration with Black Hills Information Security (BHIS), a company focused on customized security solutions for their clients. Officials from BHIS will be involved in enhancing the curriculum alongside professors in Mines Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. There will be some fun opportunities to get off campus as wellfield trips toMt. Rushmore and the South Dakota Air and Space Museum

You can find out more about attending theMines and Dakota States GenCyber here and here.

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