{"id":23830,"date":"2017-11-28T22:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/28\/4-traits-government-agencies-are-looking-for-in-cyber-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:00:59","slug":"4-traits-government-agencies-are-looking-for-in-cyber-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/smr\/cybercon\/2017\/11\/28\/4-traits-government-agencies-are-looking-for-in-cyber-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"4 traits government agencies are looking for in cyber workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courage. Creativity. Agility. Resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are the characteristics that a panel of federal and industry representatives said they value in hiring cyber workers during the CyberCon 2017 conference held Nov. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding and training workers versed in cybersecurity has long been sticking point for federal agencies. According to an April 2017 report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government needs to hire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/690\/683923.pdf\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" data-original-title=\"\">more than 7,500 workers in those areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But members of the CyberCon panel said there have always been more empty seats than qualified people to fill their jobs. Instead, with the rapid pace of change in the industry, employers want to hire workers who demonstrate specific characteristics, rather than those who come only with technical skill sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t be inside the box,\u201d said Harry Wingo, a faculty member at the college of information and cyberspace at the National Defense University. Wingo once managed a program to help Google hire more military veterans. \u201cYou have to have the confidence to advise that combatant commander and say, \u2018That\u2019s the way to go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers also need to be able to adjust on the fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen the attack vectors change, they can change with it,\u201d said Deborah Pierre-Louis, the director of the State Department\u2019s office of policy, liaison and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But none of the workforce issues facing cyber leaders will change overnight, or even in a few short years. Hiring is just part of the solution, said Trent Teyema, chief of cyber readiness at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not going to hire our way out of this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teyema pointed to two strategies the FBI has used to bolster its staffing. First, the agency has worked to ensure employees are in the room for more personalized training and not just watching virtual sessions. Secondly, the intelligence agency has specifically targeted high school and college students for internships and eventual full-time jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, experts such as Joey Muniz, a technical solutions architect for Cisco, said employers need to incentivize good behavior and should not be above shaming employees for inadvertently dangerous acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Muniz pointed to a \u201cwall of shame\u201d at Cisco for users who click on fake phishing emails. 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