1、Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber DirectorLaura Bate RADM(Ret.)Mark MontgomeryJune 2022Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber DirectorTable of ContentsExecutive Summary.4A Vision for the Future of the Federal Cyber Workforce.6Characteristics of the Current Environment.

2、6 Efforts Currently in Motion.8Recommendations for the National Cyber Director.11Recommendations for Congress.19Recommendations for the Private Sector.22Appendix:Model Legislative Text.234Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber DirectorExecutive SummaryNearly 10 years ago,researchers hyp

3、othesized that market forces would correct the U.S.shortage of cyber professionals over time.1 This has not occurred,and the cybersecurity community is out of time.The pervasiveness of avoidable cyber problems such as misconfigured systems,slow patching,and insufficient attention to risk management

4、can frequently be directly tied to cyber staffing shortages.2 Not only are these problems expensive to remediate after incidents occur,but they are also a threat to national security,particularly when they occur in critical-infrastructure systems or in the supply chains upon which that infrastructur

5、e depends.For more than a decade,report after report has documented the growing number of unfilled cyber positions,both in the U.S.government and nationwide,offering strategies and recommendations to address the shortfall.These strategies and recommendations have too often gone ignored.The congressi

6、onally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission published a white paper on the cyber workforce in September 2020,identifying systemic barriers stymieing existing workforce development efforts.3 A lack of centralized leadership,insufficient coordination across the federal government,a nonexistent fede