"NSA Hires Record Number of People with Disabilities, Undertakes Accommodation Initiatives"
In 2022, the National Security Agency (NSA) made more progress in creating and maintaining a diverse workforce critical to achieving its foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions. In 2022, a record 15.6 percent of new hires self-identified as a person with a disability. Recently, the People with Disabilities Employee Resource Group (PWD ERG) worked with the Cybersecurity Directorate (CSD) to conduct a panel discussion on methods to increase accessibility in order to retain the finest and brightest employees to support the NSA's goal. A representative from the Office of Physical Security stated that in recent years, medical devices have become increasingly intelligent, posing a security challenge that the team is working to solve. They are actively collaborating with medical device users, the PWD ERG, the Research Directorate, and technical subject matter experts from across the NSA to identify and implement new mitigations while providing the greatest possible accommodation for affiliates relying on such devices. This article continues to discuss the NSA hiring a record number of people with disabilities to help fulfill foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions.