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Cyber Commission Provides Guidance To Develop Federal Cyber Workforce

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

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Cyber Commission Provides Guidance To Develop Federal Cyber Workforce

A U.S. commission focused on bolstering the nation’s cyber security posture on Tuesday released guidelines aimed at creating a strategy to develop the federal cyber workforce. The overall goal is to grow the nation’s workforce, but the latest white paper from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission says the new guidelines focus on making the federal government efforts here a “proof of concept of effective cyber workforce planning and policies.” The paper puts forth five elements to guide a “coherent” federal cyber…

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