National Governors Association Urges Workforce Training to Improve States' Cybersecurity
A well-trained and stable cybersecurity workforce is “critical” to protecting states against mounting cyberthreats, the National Governors Association (NGA) said Monday in a paper. Governors should ensure that their existing workforce has the “requisite skills to protect and defend state…
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networks and critical infrastructure,” which could in the long term require realigning state education and workforce programs to support cybersecurity training, the NGA said. The group also encouraged governors to utilize the National Guard’s cyber resources for training and incident response purposes. Maryland has “worked aggressively to develop our highly skilled cyber workforce -- this will help address both the state’s and the nation’s cybersecurity challenges, and will also foster growth in our innovative and job-creating cybersecurity business sector,” said Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley, co-chairman of the NGA’s Resource Center for State Cybersecurity, in a news release.