Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce? Criteria for Decision-Making

Citation
National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce: Criteria for Future Decision-Making, '''Professionalizing the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce? Criteria for Decision-Making''' (2013) (full-text).

Overview
This report characterizes the current landscape for cybersecurity workforce development and sets forth criteria that the federal agencies participating in the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education &mdash; as well as organizations that employ cybersecurity workers &mdash; could use to identify which specialty areas may require professionalization and to evaluate different approaches and tools for professionalization.