QUESTION
What challenges does New York City face in recruiting cybersecurity professionals?
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Moan acknowledges the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals, with a gap of around 450,000 open positions in the United States.
- The New York City government offers a unique value proposition to prospective cybersecurity employees.
- Employees can directly protect and defend a city larger in scale than most federal agencies.
- NYC prioritizes upskilling and reskilling current employees through initiatives like the NYC Cyber Command Academy.
- Intellectual curiosity, desire to learn, and hard work are key for success in the cybersecurity field.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
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Do you experience any difficulties recruiting talent?
Kelly Moan
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Thank you for that question.
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The cybersecurity workforce globally.
0:25:32
I think it's in the public domain.
0:25:33
It's very well known that there are there is absolutely a gap in the supply and demand of the cyber trudy professionals just market wide.
0:25:42
I think the last statistic I saw was 4,000,000 professionals.
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There's a app of between supply and demand.
0:25:49
I think in the US, it's hitting around 450,000 open positions that folks are recruiting for within cyber.
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I think in the city, it's actually quite quite unique on landscape in terms of recruitment for us.
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I'm really proud of the mission that we have within the city domain.
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It's a It's a value add and a value proposition that we can provide to prospective employees.
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It is uncommon that you are able to directly protect and defend the size and scale of this City.
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Yes, we are in municipality, but we are on on size and scale larger than most federal agencies, even combined.
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My background is actually from the federal sector.
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I lived in DCU in the majority of my life, supporting the federal government, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security, and I've got to say that the the apparatus that we have here in the city in addition to the the the team members that we have on Cyber Command make us an incredibly compelling job and career to have with in the city.
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And we've prioritized not just recruitment, but also prioritizing upskilling, reskilling within this city employee domain.
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I have a nontraditional cybersecurity background.
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I'm having not gotten a, I guess, a computer science degree for a bachelor's.
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Which is a testament to folks that wanna get into this field can.
Hally Thornton
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Right?
Kelly Moan
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And intellectual curiosity, desire to learn and hard work is is what it takes.
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And so we've launched New York City Cyber Command Academy to particularly promote some of those upskilling and reskilling within city.
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Agencies.
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So we continue to kind of solve for the growing supply and demand issue that the industry is facing at large.
