Former Twitter CISO Shares His Advice for IT Security Hiring and Cybersecurity
Coates got his start in IT security through red team exercises . He would use social engineering, physical pen testing, and a variety of hacks. Keep Reading
New Army Campaign Targets Gen Z Recruitment, Including Cyber Warriors
“What’s Your Warrior?” plans to tie aspirational warrior identities to the Army’s 150 unique careers and eight broad specialty areas. Keep Reading
DHS Readiness at Risk Without Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment and Strategy, OIG Warns
About 35,000 federal agency information security incidents in fiscal year 2017 alone "make it imperative that the Department intensify its efforts" to recruit. Keep Reading
DHS Wants Industry to Help Improve Pay for Cyber Personnel
By offering employees more competitive pay, the initiative looks to address the shortage of cyber expertise plaguing Homeland Security and other federal agencies. Keep Reading
GAO: Most Agencies Miscategorizing Cybersecurity Roles, Hampering Critical Staffing Efforts
The GAO report says that by assigning work roles that are inconsistent with the IT, cybersecurity, and cyber-related positions, the agencies are diminishing the reliability of the information they need to improve workforce planning. Keep Reading
Amazon Launches AWS GovCloud East Region for Federal Contractors
The cloud services expansion gives U.S. government customers additional isolated AWS infrastructure for their sensitive, highly regulated and mission-critical data and applications. Keep Reading
OPM Releases New Cyber Workforce Guidance
Agencies will need to report annually until 2022 on cyber-related work roles of critical need in the workforce and describe the roles identified and substantiate the critical needs designation. Keep Reading
GAO: DHS Needs to Urgently Identify Key Cyber Skills Requirements
The latest report also found that although DHS reported to Congress that it had coded 95 percent of its identified cybersecurity positions, last August it had actually only coded around 79 percent. Keep Reading
