PILLAR ONE | EQUIP EVERY AMERICAN WITH FOUNDATIONAL CYBER SKILLS America’s economic competitiveness and security improve when workers have the cyber skills needed to meet workforce demands. Equipped with these skills, Americans will be positioned to find and keep good jobs that support families and strengthen communities. Foundational cyber skills must become universal like reading and math. We must expand programs offering foundational cyber skills, and design learning opportunities to support education systems that are accessible and effective. Foundational cyber skills consist of three components (see also Figure 5 and Appendix B): • • • Digital literacy: The cognitive and technical skills needed to use information and technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information.45 Computational literacy: The ability to consume information and use applications and systems to: analyze data, draw conclusions, and solve problems; safely, ethically, and securely interact in networked environments; and understand how computing, data, and connectivity affects society.46 Digital resilience: The awareness, skills, agility, and confidence to be empowered users of new technologies and adapt to changing digital skill demands.47 Key stakeholders from across academia and the public and private sectors have important roles to play in enabling Americans to develop foundational cyber skills. This collaboration will need to be active, dynamic and forward-looking. NATIONAL CYBER WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION STRATEGY 8