"CISA Releases New Training Guide for Government Cyber Workforce"

The U.S. Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new training guide, titled the Cybersecurity Workforce Training Guide. This guide is intended to help IT professionals within the Federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial cybersecurity communities advance their careers. Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, emphasizes that the cybersecurity workforce is on the front lines of our nation's security, thus making it important to provide tools to those in this workforce to help them find available training that can help them be more prepared and skilled at defending against cyberattacks. The comprehensive guide, which includes more than 200 pages, will help cybersecurity professionals understand work roles and tasks, as well as the skills, knowledge, and abilities that are essential to having a successful career. The guide includes information on training and professional development opportunities that will help build skills. It also gives a walkthrough of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) and provides a potential career path. This article continues to discuss the goals and content of CISA's newly released Cybersecurity Workforce Training Guide.

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