“The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a cybersecurity career program to fill gaps in the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.”
“VA’s Office of Information Security stood up a Cyber Workforce Management (CWM) program across the broader Office of Information and Technology (OIT), which determined existing NICE Framework roles didn’t meet all of VA’s mission needs. The NICE framework, developed by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, prescribes knowledge, skills, abilities and tasks (KSATs) to work roles like a cyber defense analyst…”
“The CWM program plans to identify work roles across every single position within VA and its IT office and establish qualification requirements for each role that all of government can use, [Stephanie Keith, CWM program manager] added…”
“CWM is also standing up a cyber training academy pilot to teach employees baseline skills associated with the work roles. Baseline skills for, say, a cyber defense analyst should be the same at every agency so they’re portable, Keith said…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA developing cyber careers program to fill gaps in workforce framework – By Dave Nyczepir, January 21, 2020. FedScoop.
