Professionalizing the nation's cybersecurity workforce? : criteria for decision-making / Committee on Professionalizing the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce, Criteria for Future Decision-Making, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Professionalizing the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce: Criteria for Future Decision-Making, issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberinfrastructure--Congresses.

Cyberinfrastructure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report considers approaches to increasing the professionalization of the nation's cybersecurity workforce. It examines workforce requirements for cybersecurity and the segments and job functions in which professionalization is most needed; the role of assessment tools, certification, licensing, and other means for assessing and enhancing professionalization; and emerging approaches, such as performance-based measures. It also examines requirements for the federal (military and civilian) workforce, the private sector, and state and local government. The report focuses on three essential elements: (1) understanding the context for cybersecurity workforce development, (2) considering the relative advantages, disadvantages, and approaches to professionalizing the nation's cybersecurity workforce, and (3) setting forth criteria that can be used to identify which, if any, specialty areas may require professionalization. It also sets forth criteria for evaluating different approaches and tools for professionalization.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity Workforce, and Its Development and Professionalization""; ""2 Approaches to Professionalization""; ""3 Conclusions, Recommendation, and Criteria for Professionalization of Cybersecurity""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members""; ""Appendix B: Workshop Agendas""; ""Appendix C: Speakers and Participants at Workshops Organized by the Committee""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9780309291071

0309291070

9780309291057

0309291054

OCLC:

867159639