The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8287: A Roadmap for Successful Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Build the Cybersecurity Workforce.
In September 2016, five pilot programs were awarded funding to take a regional approach to solving the national cybersecurity workforce challenge. NISTIR 8287 provides a summary of the five programs and outlines a roadmap for building similar programs based on the best practices found and lessons learned.
The roadmap for successful alliances to build the cybersecurity workforce requires four primary components:
- establishing program goals and metrics,
- developing strategies and tactics,
- measuring impact and results, and
- sustaining the effort.
Each section of the roadmap provides specific examples and activities that the pilot programs found to be successful and repeatable in other efforts.
