Great Falls College’s cybersecurity program joins consortium to help high school teachers

Cheryl Simpson has a pretty simple hope.

When young people tick off their careers of choice – doctor, lawyer, firefighter, by way of example – for when they grow up, she wants them to include cybersecurity professional in the list.

And why not? asked Simpson, an instructor in the Great Falls College MSU computer technology program.

“You’re a detective, a good guy,” she said. “But you get to think like a bad guy, the whole ethical hacker thing. You have to be able to think like a criminal in order to get the criminal. It’s really fun.”