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Cyber Hiring to Surge by 2015 - Wired Workplace - 0 views

  • The federal cybersecurity workforce could grow to more than 61,000 employees by 2015, in part due to new demands, such as mobile computing, cloud services and social media, according to a new report. The federal government-specific results of the 2011 Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)2 and Frost & Sullivan, indicate that federal information security professionals are being stretched too thin by their work to secure the increasing amount of critical information flowing through government networks. The new demands placed on cyber professionals as a result of the government's push for mobile devices, cloud computing and social media could result in a federal cyber workforce that is 61,299 strong by 2015, the report noted. The survey of 145 C-level federal executives also found that the most serious challenges facing federal IT departments are application vulnerabilities (73 percent), mobile devices (66 percent), viruses and worm attacks (64 percent), cyber terrorism (58 percent) and internal employees (58 percent).
  • Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2, said
  • "We need new people, and we need younger people," he said. "The government needs defined career paths to help find the skills it needs, get them classified, evaluate what those jobs are worth and put good standards in place." The study also found that certification is far more important to the federal government than it is to other sectors. For example, 63 percent of CIOs and CISOs said security certifications were "very important," compared to 45 percent of worldwide survey respondents.
Steve King

Special report: Government in cyber fight but can't keep up | Reuters - 0 views

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    The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new technologies, according to officials familiar with the plans, as a recent wave of cyber attacks boosts concerns about U.S. vulnerability to digital warfare.

    The twin efforts show how President Barack Obama's administration is racing on multiple fronts to plug the holes in U.S. cyber defenses.

    Notwithstanding the military's efforts, however, the overall gap appears to be widening, as adversaries and criminals move faster than government and corporations, and technologies such as mobile applications for smart phones proliferate more rapidly than policymakers can respond, officials and analysts said.
Steve King

ONC Launches Health I.T. Competency Exams - 0 views

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    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced a "Health I.T. Professionals Competency Examination," a series of six exams to enable individuals to demonstrate their skill level in various roles and to enable health care organizations and vendors to assess the skills of their I.T. staffs.
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