“The U.S. is facing a cyber war. Foreign powers, criminal groups, hackers, and terrorist organizations have launched cyber attacks on the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and New York Stock Exchange; stolen data from the Pentagons fighter aircraft; and hacked into the nations electrical grid. There were millions of attempts to penetrate defense digital networks in 2008. In 2009, the General Accountability Office reported weaknesses in the capabilities of 23 of 24 federal agencies to detect or prevent cyber attacks. President Obama declared cybersecurity to be one of the nations most serious economic and security challenges. The federal government needs a coordinated, sustained effort to build the capability and caliber of the governments cybersecurity workforce to combat these threats and ensure the nations safety. Booz Allen Hamilton and the Partnership for Public Service examined the state of the federal cybersecurity workforce by interviewing federal experts, examining public testimony and reports, holding focus groups, and surveying chief information officers (CIOs), chief information security officers (CISOs), and human resource professionals at 18 federal agencies. Results of this research were published in the study, Cyber In-Security: Strengthening the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce.”
- Information Security: Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities Place Federal Systems at Risk, GAO-09-661T, May 5, 2009
- “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano…kicked off National Cybersecurity Awareness Month by announcing the Departments new authority to recruit and hire [up to 1,000] cybersecurity professionals across DHS over the next three yearsestablished to help fulfill the Departments broad mission to protect the nations cyber infrastructure, systems and networks.”
- US-CET: Cyber Security Tips describe and offer advice about common security issues for non-technical computer users
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