From: Nextgov
By Jack Moore
It’s no secret the ranks of the federal cybersecurity workforce are notably thin.
Think tank studies and media reports put the shortage of federal cyber professionals at anywhere from 30,000 to more than 10 times that in the broader labor force.
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“The good news is that cybersecurity is the great shiny object right now,” Tim Polk, assistant director for cybersecurity in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told members of a science advisory board last month. “One of the ways that we’re going to make progress in the cybersecurity workforce is by capitalizing on our connection to other administration priorities … things like getting returning veterans back into the workforce.”
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