cybersecurity workforce

New CISOs come on board at VA, Transportation

No fewer than six agencies over the last six weeks promoted or hired new executives to focus on cybersecurity challenges, demonstrating the continued demand…

Reporter's Notebook

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration. Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

DHS details how it’ll recruit, pay and promote new hires under cyber talent management system

Hiring/Retention

DHS using data literacy, analytics to bolster cyber workforce training

Big Data

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Hacker typing on the illuminated keyboard by night. Internet safety concept.

Most agencies still on their own to fill cyber talent gaps, solarium says

Workforce

OPM’s latest attempt to address cyber worker shortage focuses on testing

Hiring/Retention

FILE - In this Jan.23 2018 file photo, a French solider watches code lines on his computer at the French Defense ministry stand during the International Cybersecurity forum in Lille, northern France. Police in Europe and North America have seized servers and data from Islamic State propaganda outlets in a multi-country operation aimed at tracking down radicals and crimping the group's ability to spread its violent message. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

New OPM guidance recognizes cybersecurity positions come in different shapes and sizes

Hiring/Retention

OPM announces first batch of civil service changes, ‘more to come’

OMB planning new agency guidance for measuring and budgeting IT investments

Management

Staff Sgt. Micah McDonald, a air surveillance technician with the 176th Air Defense Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, evaluates radar data during exercise Fencing Rice on JBER, June 14, 2016. Fencing Rice is a local exercise designed to test the unit’s Air Defense response. The 176 ADS employs surveillance, identification, weapons control and data links in support of the Alaskan NORAD region’s 24/7/365 mission to watch and protect the skies over 1.3 million square miles of Alaskan airspace. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton/released)

Bill orders Pentagon to fix knowledge gap in National Guard, reserve cyber capabilities

DoD Reporter's Notebook

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Spring is a great time to clear out your digital clutter and make sure that you're adequately protected against hackers. A personal cybersecurity clean up should involve evaluating all your passwords, updating your software and taking stock of exactly where all your personal information is stored. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Agencies get new directions from OPM for coding cyber positions

Cybersecurity

Navy takes on demand side of cyber workforce

Ask the CIO

First-ever cyber workforce strategy aims to grow pipeline of skills

The Office of Management and Budget outlined a series of steps agencies should take to increase the number of people they recruit, train and prepare to…

Cybersecurity

Alexander: Morale of cyber workforce takes hit from shutdown

Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said the greatest impact of the ongoing government shutdown on cybersecurity…

Defense

Growing collaboration between US Cyber Command, DHS

Federal Drive

The outgoing chief of staff for U.S. Cyber Command said recently the military\’s professional cyber corps has strong, diverse capabilities.