While some may consider the Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce Act as intended primarily to improve diversity in a workforce dominated by white men, that attitude ignores the real security risk that ...

The Pentagon still needs nearly 30,000 cyber workers, but the number of open positions has gone down significantly since last year, defense officials said Thursday. “The civilian vacancy rate is now ...

Before retiring from his post at NIST, Rodney Petersen spoke with FNN about the evolution of cyber workforce efforts over the last decade.

The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study finds that skills shortages now pose a greater risk to security effectiveness than staffing levels, even as budget pressures show ...

Larger organizations in particular have strengthened their cyber workforce this year: On average, organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue had one cyber professional per 1,086 employees.

The cybersecurity landscape is facing a critical challenge—a shortage of skilled professionals to combat ever-evolving threats. Despite organizations investing heavily in security infrastructure, the ...

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) workforce is short 30,000 cyber and information technology (IT) personnel. And the rest of the department’s workforce needs to be managed adroitly for the ...

Cyber resilience has dominated headlines this year as major outages impacting people, businesses, and public services hit the headlines. But what about the cyber security professionals working behind ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Pentagon still needs nearly 30,000 cyber workers, but the number of open positions has gone down significantly since last year, ...