DHS CISO joins call for an 18F for cybersecurity
The federal government should establish a dedicated team of star performers poached from the private sector along the lines of the General Services Administration’s government technology startup 18F, Department of Homeland Security CISO Jeff Eisensmith said Thursday. “We need to do the same thing we did with 18F and push that deeper into the cybersecurity realm,” he told CyberScoop in a brief interview after his panel discussion at the Dell EMC’s Digital Transformation Summit produced by FedScoop. “18F brought higher pay and prestige” to government service, he said. “They recruited hard in high tech areas. That whole paradigm could work” in cybersecurity. Eisensmith’s call echoes one issued last year by 18F founder Greg Godbout. “It would be really great to have a consultant service in government similar to an 18F or US [Digital Service] model … that’s built around cybersecurity,” Godbout told FedScoop in May last year, about a month after he left his […]
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