The cyber workforce is a high-demand, transient population that must constantly use skills in new and different ways to address evolving and expanding system threats.
For these reasons, recruiting and human capital approaches that apply to other parts of the federal workforce are not always applicable to cyber talent. Recognizing these differences and adjusting human capital practices to address them is not a nicety, but an absolute necessity. To tackle these cyber talent issues, federal agencies must hone their efforts, and treat the cybersecurity workforce with a different-in-kind philosophy, based on collaboration and data.
