The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is a partnership between government, academia, and the private sector focused supporting the country's ability to address current and future cybersecurity education and workforce challenges through standards and best practices.

NICE is led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Existing cybersecurity training and personnel development programs, while good, are limited in focus and lack unity of effort.

It will take a national strategy, similar to the effort to upgrade science and mathematics education in the 1950s, to meet this challenge.

Additionally, the CNCI described training, education, and professional development programs as lacking “unity of effort”.