Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce

coondoggie writes "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today said the agency will form a cybersecurity workforce task group that will consider strategies such as expanding DHS involvement in cyber competitions and university programs, enhancing public-private security partnerships and working with other government agencies to develop a more agile cyber workforce across the federal government. The new task force will be co-chaired by hacking expert Jeff Moss who now works for the Homeland Security Advisory Council and Alan Paller is director of research at the SANS Institute."

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Re:first step

[Scorch_Mechanic]

Stop calling it "cyber".

As much as I dislike the word "cyber" and the overuse of it as a prefix, it's not really "wrong" anymore. It's been used so much that it has acquired legitimacy and meaning in the eyes of the masses, even if we who are computer-aware still wince when someone says it on air.

When a scumbag (read: politician) says "cybersecurity", you and I both know that he means "computer/network/information security", even as we groan. Much as we wish it were not so, it's the way things are now.

Sorry.