National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy Can Help Meet Evolving Cyber Workforce Needs
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI welcomed the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD)’s release of the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, an outline designed to build the U.S. cyber workforce and education system and address the critical cyber workforce shortage.
“Effective cybersecurity is key to maintaining U.S. national security and ensuring U.S. competitiveness,” said ITI Senior Vice President for Policy and General Counsel John Miller. “As the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs continues to grow and cyber attacks become more sophisticated, the release of the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy is timely. It appropriately emphasizes the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion for a modern technology workforce. Executing this strategy can bolster the investments and resources needed to protect and defend the digital economy, secure the infrastructure that underpins it, and address the complex and evolving threat environment in an efficient way. We look forward to partnering with the Biden Administration to implement the strategy and advance the private-public collaboration necessary to meet today’s evolving cybersecurity workforce needs.”
ITI has called on policymakers to consider the implications of the cybersecurity workforce and the more than 700,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs as it implements the National Cybersecurity Strategy. In June, ITI submitted written testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection with recommendations on how to reduce the security workload and empower cybersecurity professionals.
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