Cyber Spy High: Meet the NSA's Hacker Recruiter

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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/cyber-spy-high-meet-nsas-hacker-recruiter-n216056

BY EAMON JAVERS
NBC News
Oct 1, 2014

The National Security Agency has a recruiting problem.

Rocked by the Edward Snowden disclosures and facing stiff competition for 
top talent from high-paying Silicon Valley firms, the nation's cyber spy 
agency is looking to recruit a new generation of college hackers and tech 
experts. And through one new program, the agency is cultivating students 
as young as eighth grade.

The man the NSA has turned to for help solving its recruiting problem is 
an avuncular 32-year NSA veteran named Steven LaFountain, who has been 
tasked with building up a "cyber curriculum" for tech-savvy students at 20 
to 25 American universities–and making sure a steady flow of top minds 
continues to go to work for the nation's technical surveillance agency. 
Officially, it’s known as the Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber 
Operations program.

Recently, CNBC sat down with LaFountain in a conference room at NSA's 
National Cryptologic Museum, next to the agency's sprawling headquarters 
in Ft. Meade, Maryland, to talk about recruiting in the post-Snowden era.

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