From: FCW
By Derek B. Johnson
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According to a May 2017 report from the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, “traditional recruitment channels are not meeting the demand for cybersecurity workers” across the economy fast enough to close an expected global shortage of 1.8 million qualified personnel by 2021.
At a Dec. 5 cybersecurity conference in Washington, D.C., acting Federal CIO Grant Schneider said White House IT modernization initiatives like shared services and cloud computing are considered a way to automate some functions and reduce the number of highly skilled information security personnel the federal government relies on.
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