WELLINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government has set up a Cyber Security Skills Taskforce to help train people to defend against cyber attacks, Communications Minister Amy Adams said Tuesday.
The taskforce would focus on practical actions to increase the number of cyber professionals needed to help defend against cyber-attacks, which cost the New Zealand economy 257 million NZ dollars (188.69 million U.S. dollars) last year, Adams said in a statement.
Many New Zealand universities had developed specialist cyber security degrees and postgraduate courses or were in the process of developing them.
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