Feds Say They Finally Have a Database of Every Cyber Job in Government

The federal government is finally getting a sense of the size, shape and skills of its cybersecurity workforce. “Preliminary analysis” of a new database of all cyber jobs government-wide, which went live in January, indicates employees doing cybersecurity work hail from more than 100 different job categories scattered across agencies.

In other words, it just might take a village to do cybersecurity in the federal government. The new information about the cyber database comes from a Feb. 27 report to Congress from the White House on the implementation of the 2002 E-Government Act. The report did not provide specifics on the total size of the federal cyber workforce. It’s also unclear if the cyber database, which is hosted by the Office of Personnel Management, will be open to public view.