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Cyber

Pentagon Given Authority To Hire 3,000 Cybersecurity Employees, Cyber Chiefs Request Full Funding

Friday, March 6th, 2015

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The Department of Defense was given the authority to hire up to 3,000 cybersecurity positions, partially meant to help fully staff U.S. Cyber Command, the Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday.The permission applies to the entire department.Rather than using traditional criteria, the department can offer positions based on skills. The positions “require unique cybersecurity skills and knowledge to perform cyber risk and strategic analysis, incident handling and malware/vulnerability analysis, program management, distributed control systems security, cyber incident response, cyber exercise…

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Army

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