Leading voices in the tech industry and a job market analytics firm are working together to expand education, training, and certifications in cyber-security careers. The organizations will continue their collaboration through 2022 as they enhance CyberSeek, the free resource on the nation’s cybersecurity workforce, job market, and career opportunities.
During the last week of 2019’s Cyber-security Month, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, CompTIA and Burning Glass Technologies announced a commitment to expand and enhance CyberSeek to tackle the increasingly critical problem of cyber-security skills gaps and worker shortages.
CyberSeek was launched in November 2016 through a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of NICE’s mission to promote cyber-security education, training, and workforce development. NICE is a partnership between government, academia, and the private sector.
Originally developed to address a lack of data in understanding America’s cyber-security workforce, CyberSeek has evolved into covering cyber-security employment ratios, location quotients, skill needs, salary expectations, job roles, and more.
Enhancements are planned for two elements of CyberSeek: the cyber-security job demand heat map and a career pathway visualization.
“Understanding the landscape of opportunity in cyber-security careers, both in terms of where the jobs are and the pathways by which workers can enter and advance, is critical if the nation is to have the level of cyber-security talent it needs for a secure future,” said Matthew Sigelman, CEO at Burning Glass Technologies. “With these enhancements, CyberSeek users will be able to retrieve even more information at the national, state and metro levels on the supply and demand for various types of cyber-security jobs across sectors and the potential supply of qualified candidates to meet those demands. ”
“One of the roles played by NICE is to drive organizations toward the use of the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework that provides a common language for describing cyber-security work,” said Rodney Petersen, NICE director. “CyberSeek plays an important role in bringing a data-driven, standardized approach to public and private sector cyber-security workforce initiatives and encourages a shared understanding of the magnitude of the cyber-security workforce challenge and opportunity.”
CyberSeek’s alignment to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework ensures a common language for identifying cyber-security work roles and skill requirements. This alignment carries over to CyberSeek’s career pathways planner, providing employers and learners with a handy guide for plotting career progression.
“Common approaches to cyber-security operations, workforce development, and recruitment and hiring continue to lag the pace of change brought on by rapid innovation and the adoption of new and emerging technologies,” said Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO, CompTIA. “We’re investing extensive resources in areas such as performance-based training, adaptive competency assessments and advanced professional certifications to respond to this changing environment.”
To explore CyberSeek visit https://www.cyberseek.org
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