As someone who works in cybersecurity and is beyond qualified to DoDI 8570 standards (CISSP, GSEC, SSCP, yadda, yadda...), but can't join the military due to a medical disqualification....
If you can stand the pay cut, you could work as a GS Civilian. Many government Information Assurance/Cyber Security jobs are open under direct hire authority, so they look at your aptitude, education, certifications, and experience; ostensibly to hire the most-qualified candidates outside of the normal hiring procedures.
This is a subject that's been broached at national, but buy-in has been slow to build. We'll get there, it just won't happen this year.
what sort of broaching has been done? Is this like a conversation over coffee at a conference, or a multi-meeting strategy session with principles and SMEs?
If CAP wants relevence in IT security, it might want to start by not adopting 20 year old buzz words like "cyber".
Quote from: Eclipse on April 19, 2017, 11:39:05 AMIf CAP wants relevence in IT security, it might want to start by not adopting 20 year old buzz words like "cyber".Tell that to the Federal Government/DoD, then. They just changed "Information Assurance" to "Cyber Security" like yesterday (in government time.) (To be fair, I cringe a little at "cyber," too.)
I finally gave up the fight. "What do you do at work?" "I do cyber security."
Quote from: Spaceman3750 on April 19, 2017, 02:09:57 PMI finally gave up the fight. "What do you do at work?" "I do cyber security."((*snicker*)) Passing out computer access slips to the homeless at the library is not ((*snort*)) "cyber security"...
...((*snicker*)) Passing out computer access slips to the homeless at the library is not ((*snort*)) "cyber security"...
I love this, but I guess I may be behind the times because I did not realize the term, cyber security was so old!