Marian Merritt
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, NIST
Marian Merritt is the Deputy Director for the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her areas of focus include industry engagement, apprenticeship and small business cybersecurity.
Marian has over 20 years of experience working in the cybersecurity industry. She previously was with Symantec Corporation as their Director of Cyber Education and Online Safety Programs. In that role, she created a cybersecurity career program for underserved young adults, which launched in 2014. The Symantec Cyber Career Connection continues in partnership with non-profit workforce development organizations in several U.S. locations. Marian attended Boston University’s Questrom School of Business for her undergraduate degree and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
