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Goal 1 — Accelerate Learning and Skills Development. Inspire a sense of urgency in both
the public and private sectors to address the shortage of skilled cybersecurity workers.
Objectives of this goal include stimulating the development of approaches and techniques that
can more rapidly increase the supply of qualified cybersecurity workers, and engaging displaced
workers or underemployed individuals who are available and motivated to assume cybersecurity
work roles.

Goal 2 — Nurture a Diverse Learning Community. Strengthen education and training across
the ecosystem to emphasize learning, measure outcomes and diversify the cybersecurity
workforce. Objectives of this goal include expanding creative and effective efforts to increase
the number of women, minorities, veterans, persons with disabilities, and other
underrepresented populations in the cybersecurity workforce.

Goal 3 — Guide Career Development and Workforce Planning. Support employers to
address market demands and enhance recruitment, hiring, development and retention of
cybersecurity talent. Objectives of this goal include developing promotional tools that assist
human resource professionals and hiring managers with recruitment, hiring, development and
retention of cybersecurity professionals.

These are just some of the steps already underway in an industry dependent on a new, well-
educated workforce to accomplish one of the most important challenges of our time —
combating an ever-growing number of increasingly damaging internal and external threats.

NIST summed up the challenge in a recent NICE document:

“While billions of dollars are being spent on new technologies to secure the U.S. government
(and corporate world) in cyberspace, it is the people with the right knowledge, skills, and abilities
to implement those technologies who will determine success … To effectively ensure our
continued technical advantage and future cybersecurity, we must develop a technologically
skilled and cyber-savvy workforce, and an effective pipeline of future employees. It will take a
national strategy, similar to the effort to upgrade science and mathematics education in the
1950s, to meet this challenge.”

About The Author

Bob Chaput is the CEO & Founder of Clearwater Compliance. He has 25
years of experience in the Healthcare industry, and his experience includes
managing some of the world’s largest HR, benefits and healthcare
databases, requiring the highest levels of security and privacy. Mr. Chaput
continues to expand and update his knowledge base on HIPAA-HITECH
compliance through postgraduate study, earning professional certifications
and participating in professional healthcare and other organizations.

Bob can be reached online at [email protected], you
can also follow us on twitter @clearwaterHIPAA, and at our company website:
https://clearwatercompliance.com

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