What Should the Government Do in 2023 to Fill its Cyber Workforce Shortage? – By Kirsten Errick (Nextgov) / Dec 30, 2022
The threat of cyberattacks makes filling these positions critical, experts say.
Government needs to expand where it recruits to fill open cyber positions going into 2023 as the threat of cyberattacks makes filling these positions vital, according to experts.
“For cyber talent, one of the biggest realities is that we have to increase the points of entry,” Erin Weiss Kaya, senior cyber talent and organizational strategist at Booz Allen, told Nextgov. “We don’t want to eliminate points of entry because we’re dealing with this lack of enough supply and a lack of entry level points.”
As of September 2022, there were 40,000 open positions in the public sector, a September report from the Federal Cyber Workforce Management and Coordinating Working Group found.
