DHS To Add Up To 1,000 Cybersecurity Jobs
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it would add up to 1,000 new cybersecurity experts to its workforce during the next three years in order to ramp up the nation’s defenses against cyber threats.
The Obama administration has given DHS the go-ahead to add new cybersecurity experts at the beginning of October, which has been dubbed "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month."
"This new hiring authority will enable (the department) to recruit the best cyber analysts, developers and engineers in the world to serve their country by leading the nation’s defenses against cyber threats," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“Effective cybersecurity requires all partners — individuals, communities, government entities and the private sector — to work together to protect our networks and strengthen our cyber resiliency.”
Napolitano referred to cybersecurity as one of the US’ “most urgent priorities."
"We rely on cybernetworks to control and manage transportation, electricity, banking."
The addition of 1,000 new cybersecurity positions would help the national effort to ward off threats to the US’ infrastructure.
Napolitano said the new positions would fill the roles of cyber risk and strategic analysis, cyber incident response, vulnerability detection and assessment, intelligence and investigation, and network and systems engineering.
"Cyber attacks and their viral ability to infect networks, devices, and software must be the concern of all Americans," said President Barack Obama.
"In the Information Age, the very technologies that empower us to create and build also empower those who would disrupt and destroy," he said.
"My administration is committed to treating our digital infrastructure as a strategic national asset."
The White House is also expected to appoint a “cyberczar” to lead the push for more protection.
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