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CIO Council Releases Cybersecurity Workforce Development Matrices
The Information Security and Identity Management Committee (ISIMC) and the IT Workforce Committee (ITWC) of the Federal CIO Council are publicly releasing four Cybersecurity Workforce Development Matrices and the accompanying Cybersecurity Workforce Development Matrix Resource Guide.
Completed last month, the matrices are intended to give Federal IT departments and agencies a common framework for describing competencies/skills, education, experience, credentials and training needed by performance level for each of the identified roles. The resource guide supports the initiative by providing agency personnel with a desktop reference for developing human capital and workforce development activities, with a particular focus on their Cybersecurity workforces.
Since 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has been developing a taxonomy of Cybersecurity roles. The Matrix Project Team partnered with NICE to share information and integrate its list of roles with the emerging framework. Currently out for public comment, the NICE framework includes 31 specialty areas in the Cybersecurity workforce.
