Enhancing the Cybersecurity Workforce

Cybersecurity, by its very nature, is people-both defenders and attackers- engaged in a contest playing out on a field of information systems and technology. Just as in any contest of this kind, success lies in identifying talent and continually developing and conditioning teams of professionals.

The Workforce Challenge

Government, industry, and academia largely agree that addressing the deficit of well-developed cybersecurity human resources has become a priority for organizations across the US. There's broad recognition that this highly specialized but ill-defined workforce has suffered from underinvested educational pipelines and disjointed development programs.