From: FierceGovernmentIT

By Molly Bernhart Walker

With the goal of building a cadre of highly-skilled cyber security experts, the Commerce Department tripled role-based training completion in three years and implemented an award-winning personally-identifiable information training program department wide.

“IT security training is a real big, big push for us at the department,” said Commerce Department Chief Information Security Officer Rod Turk during a May 20 panel discussion at ACT-IAC’s Management of Change Conference in Cambridge, Md.

But ensuring cybersecurity at the department depends on more than just technology, he said.

“Technology doesn’t always carry the day when you need to present a program to a set of executives in a federated organization,” said Turk.

Department CISOs and the teams that support them have to coordinate with an array of stakeholders.

“I need people who can understand budgets. I need people who can understand human resources. I need people who can write business cases. I need people who can communicate,” said Turk.

“Now, notice I didn’t say technologists. That’s important, too, but in order to get the programs in place to be able to move security forward, I have to have a diverse group of people to be able to present that forward,” he added.

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