Demand keeps growing for cyber-security workers
“It may be hard to imagine a job posting for a program analyst that lists preserving the nation’s freedoms and securing the homeland as the position’s chief responsibilities.
But as cyber-security has climbed up the list of national priorities, the federal government is poised to change that.
For instance, at last month’s RSA Conference, an annual gathering of thousands of cyber-security professionals held in San Francisco, both FBI Director Robert Mueller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made sure to use a few seconds of their keynote speeches to make their pitch.
‘We might be trying to recruit some of you right now,’ she said. ‘We need it. It’s a huge (matter of) public interest for our country. We need the best minds to meet the challenge.”
