NCD Inglis emphasizes need for cyber workforce strategy including increased data collection

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis says creating a strategy that includes data collection and tracking is important to boost the cyber workforce and find talent who can meet the government’s needs.

At a Thursday event, Inglis referred to important pieces at work today including NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education and the National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, while emphasizing there is a “missing” strategy to connect them and other efforts.

The strategy would give effective programs “the...