House Homeland Security subcommittees will hold a hearing March 7 to explore Government Accountability Office (GAO) findings on cybersecurity workforce implementation for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
GAO released its report Cybersecurity Workforce: Urgent Need for DHS to Take Actions to Identify its Position and Critical Skill Requirements in February noting that DHS “did not establish timely and complete procedures to identify, categorize, and code its cybersecurity position vacancies and responsibilities.”
In the report, GAO offered six recommendations to the department to address shortcomings. These included establishing procedures for identifying and coding vacancies; identifying leaders to head up the effort; establishing a review process; ensuring data collected by the Office of Chief Human Capital Officer is accurate; and that the DHS secretary should “develop guidance to assist DHS components in identifying their cybersecurity work categories and specialty areas of critical need that align to the [National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education] framework.”
The hearing of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection and Oversight and Management Efficiency subcommittees begins at 2 p.m. EST on Feb. 7 and may be viewed live on the Homeland Security Committee’s website.
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