“A year after the White House eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator, President Donald Trump called for everyone else to do the opposite and push cybersecurity coordination through worker training and recruitment.”
“America built the internet and shared it with the world; now we will do our part to secure and preserve cyberspace for future generations,” said Trump in a statement Thursday.
The Executive Order calls for supporting cyber workforce mobility between the private and public sector, without addressing how that will be accomplished. It calls for more training opportunities, for recognizing cybersecurity talent and holding agency heads accountable for risk management.
It directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a cybersecurity job rotation program, so government IT security professionals have an opportunity to learn from and share knowledge with different agencies.
The order calls for the use of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) and NIST’s Cybersecurity Workforce Framework to gauge the skills of industry practitioners and…
