Workforce Capability Assessments and Planning

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CTS Approach

Informal– the ability to work in a non-traditional environment.

Flexible– the ability to move into new roles or environments quickly to increase knowledge and skills.

Workforce Requirements:

High Complexity – the need to employ a large number of intricate technologies and concepts.

Workload Requirements:

Incident Management

Communications Security Management

Computer Network Defense

Cyber Threat Solutions, Inc. (CTS) personnel have experience in providing cybersecurity workforce capability assessments and use that assessment process to gather data on the cybersecurity training needs of your organization. Training in forensics and vulnerabilities assessment are admittedly some of the weakest skill sets within the federal government and many companies today. Based on these types of needs, CTS personnel have the knowledge, skills and experience to coordinate group cybersecurity training and certification preparation for the following key functional areas:

Cybersecurity Workforce Capability Assessments and Planning

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Dynamic– the ability to provide for constant learning to effectively approach new endeavors and problems.

Multi-Functional– the ability to maintain and execute a variety of activities at any given time.

Fast Paced – the need to sustain multiple workstreams occurring rapidly.

Surge Capacity– the need to expand resources and capabilities in response to prolonged demand.

Compliance

Vulnerabilities Assessment

Forensics

CTS recommends that organizations focus on a Two-pronged Approach: (1) use workforce planning to identify cybersecurity skills, proficiency gaps and workload. CTS can help organizations develop an approach which integrates best practices for workforce planning specific to cybersecurity within the framework of the seven categories of The National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework—providing a standardized and categorized way from which to build this approach; and (2) use a Capability Maturity Model to apply the elements of best practice workforce planning to analyze their cybersecurity requirements and maturity needs.

Agile– the ability to shift between roles or needs should a threat warrant different support.

Transformative – the need to adapt to fundamental changes to technology, processes, and threats.

One of the most important and key aspects of workforce planning is identifying the workforce and workload requirements that impact the nature of the work performed. Workload and workforce requirements are the unique characteristics that make one profession different from another, and may change how workforce planning is executed for that workload or workforce. There are unique workload and workforce requirements specifically important to cybersecurity: