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A new report by the cyberspace solarium commission bemoans the fact that the national cyber workforce shortage is still a major problem. But the commission thinks it's a problem that can start to be solved with the help of the new national cyber director. And the director will need strategies that address both the federal workforce and the private sector.
An influential commission says one of Chris Inglis's first big tasks could be taking on the shortage of cyber talent.
For details the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to CompTIA's Senior Vice President for Workforce Relations Amy Kardel.
If cybersecurity is one of the nation's most potent threats, the answer is as much a talent question as technology.
A new report says the Office of the National Cyber Director should lead a government-wide cybersecurity workforce strategy.
The Food and Drug Administration is giving employees a chance to learn data skills through hands-on projects, with less emphasis on traditional classrooms and coursework.
DHS' recent rulemaking for a 2014 law gives the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a lot of discretion in hiring cybersecurity people.
Collins, who recently left after four years as the chief information security officer at the Social Security Administration, said one of his biggest accomplishments was hiring or retraining two dozen information system security officers (ISSOs) to work directly with the mission areas.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is seeing troubling new figures in military suicide rates.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department Inspector General says the Pentagon’s bureaucracy is getting in the way of hiring the cyber employees the military needs.
National Security experts are calling on the U.S. to expand its list of banned Chinese companies. A small-town VA employee's $100,000 scheme gets him 46 months in federal prison. And following the science, the Senate confirms POTUS's pick to lead his Office of Science and Technology Policy
In today's Federal Newscast, the largest federal employee union has some ideas of how to address the Defense Department's skill gaps.
The Department of Homeland Security is building momentum on its plans to get ahead of an escalating ransomware threat, and getting started on 60-day sprint focused on ramping up its cyber workforce to get ahead of these threats.
For more than a decade, the CyberPatriot national youth cyber defense competition has matched teams of middle and high school students who find and fix cybersecurity flaws.