Feds Already Knew It's Too Soon for Cyber Workforce Standards

A recent report on professionalization in the cybersecurity workforce confirmed the views of many government experts that the field is much too young, diverse and understaffed to begin introducing stricter standards.

Ernest McDuffie, head of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said NICE leaders and many cybersecurity experts already had a "presupposed view" that the cybersecurity field was not ready to be professionalized, even before a report released by the National Academies of Sciences came to the same conclusion.