A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity – A White Paper of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, July 2010A new study has been released by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President that looks into cybersecurity manpower challenges in the United States. The report titled, "A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity," is produced by CSIS - a bipartisan public and foreign policy think tank in Washington.
From the report:
"The nation and the world are now critically dependent on the cyber infrastructure that is vulnerable to threats and often under attack in the most real sense of the word.
... The problem is both of quantity and quality especially when it comes to highly skilled “red teaming” professionals We not only have a shortage of the highly technically skilled people required to operate and support systems already deployed, but also an even more desperate shortage of people who can design secure systems, write safe computer code, and create the ever more sophisticated tools needed to prevent, detect, mitigate and reconstitute from damage due to system failures and malicious acts.
The cybersecurity workforce to which we speak in this report consists of those who self-identify as cybersecurity specialists as well as those who build and operate our systems and networks. That workforce includes not only workers on government payrolls, but also those contractors who operate as part of the extended government workforce. It also includes those who build and maintain the critical infrastructure on which the public and private sectors have come to rely."
Related Links:
Prepublication: A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity CSIS, Jul.16.2010
Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens U.S. Security NPR, Jul.19.2010
Cybersecurity Expert Shortage Puts U.S. At Risk InformationWeek, Jul.21.2010
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