The “huge” cyber skills gap also needs to be addressed between the public and private sectors to keep systems safe.
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Department of Veterans Affairs leaders are ensuring that compliance is going hand in hand with risk management in order to beef up cybersecurity systems at their inception.
VA CISO and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security Lynette Sherrill said at Rise8’s Prodacity event that public servants need to be educated on what risk looks like within their systems beyond a “checklist exercise,” and that part of solving the problem involves hiring skilled cybersecurity employees who can sort technical risks from compliance risks.
Sherrill added that the gulf in cyber skills between the public and private sectors needs to be bridged in innovative ways.
“We’ve got a huge cyber gap in the entire industry. We’ve got to figure out how do we get more people into cybersecurity. We’ve got to use non-traditional hiring methods, non-traditional people and get…
