Private sector companies need to change their hiring and recruitment practices to effectively onboard the next-generation of cyber talent, including reassessing the skills and degrees that they believe are needed to successfully defend against cyber threats, witnesses told members of a House panel on Thursday.
The hearing, held by the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee, focused on efforts to grow the nation’s cyber talent pipeline — a critical necessity, given that a report released by a federal working group last year found that there were “more than 700,000 cyber jobs to fill nationwide and nearly 40,000 in the public sector as of April 2022.”
