Upcoming 2025 Presentations

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 at 10:00 am - 10:45 AM 

The skills-first initiatives that we're seeing in the United States and around the world promise to expand talent pools, eliminate barriers to career entry and reduce hiring times. It's still early days, but there is enough information available to report on the practical ramifications of initial skills-first efforts. 

Our report will first discuss how skills-first has focused on hands-on, practical learning. Second, we will discuss the importance of data-driven education. Then, we will outline how organizations make skills-first initiatives legally defensible to ensure the highest standards of integrity and fairness to all demographics around the world. Join us to learn more about organizations worldwide are doing to make sure that hiring and upskilling approaches follow best practices, have high quality control, and address the need for practical learning as they validate and build the best possible cyber workforce.

 The panel will feature:

Brian Correia, SANS | GIAC

James Stager, CompTIA

Jim Wiggins | FITSI 

Tuesday, June 25, 2024: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

As the Department of Defense (DoD) embarks on the implementation phase of DoD 8140, it's crucial to equip yourself and your team with the necessary knowledge to meet impending deadlines. Join us for an interactive session where we'll address your queries and tailor our discussion to suit your needs. Through audience polling and question submissions, we'll delve into understanding the mapping process, deciphering work roles, how to use the marketplace, and what are the qualification options from certification bodies and military schoolhouses.

The updated DoD 8140 Qualification Program, initiated in February 2023, offers a holistic approach to managing cybersecurity workforce talent. It sets forth baseline standards for qualifications aligned with operational requirements and workforce preparedness. This program encompasses all DoD personnel assigned to cyberspace-related roles, including Service members, DoD civilian employees, contractors, and foreign nationals, in accordance with the DoD Cyberspace Workforce Framework (DCWF).

Our discussion will encompass:

• Understanding the Fundamentals of DoD 8140
• Leveraging Mapping for Work Role Alignment
• Examples of Real-World Work Roles
• Investigating Available Courses and Certifications

This session is made for any manager who must implement job role coding for their workforce and for any DoD personnel including contractors who will need to meet this directive. Attendees can expect to learn what they need to develop actionable plans and successful execution of the DoD 8140 directive.

 The panel will feature:

Brian Correia, SANS | GIAC

James Stager, CompTIA

November 7, 2023 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Come attend a panel discussion with the DoD’s CIO office and the top cybersecurity certification bodies where we discuss how the cybersecurity workforce has evolved and becoming more standardized.  Come learn solutions of what the DCWF and the top certification bodies are doing to build the pipeline of both entry and specialized roles while incorporating real world skills into the cybersecurity workforce.  The panel will feature:

Matt Isnor, Department of Defense

Brian Correia, SANS | GIAC

James Stager, CompTIA

Jim Wiggins | FITSI 

Jon Brandt | ISACA

You will learn and walk away with ideas on how the updated DoD8140 mandate is set-up to better prepare our services to handle the increasing number of threats while building better inclusion and skills in the workforce. 

Featuring Leaders from ISACA, CompTia, SANS, ISC2, and iapp

65 minutes

Hosted by Naomi Buckwalter

Featuring:

Casey Marks, Chief Qualifications Officer, ISC2

Kim Cohen, Vice President, Credentialing, ISACA

Brian Correia, Director of Business Development, GIAC

Bridget Morang, Senior Certification Operations Manager, IAPP

Gordon Pelosse, Senior Vice President, Employer Engagement, CompTIA

Often the cybersecurity industry talks about the shortage of the workforce, but many ignore the real concern which is essentially a skill and an expectations gap. During this panel attendees will hear from the top certification bodies who will discuss what they are doing to fix those gaps including solutions and case studies for both entry and established cybersecurity professionals.   Panelists are members of the Cybersecurity Credentials Collaborative (C3).

James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist, CompTIA

Brian Correia, Director of Business Development, GIAC
Andrea Bucklaew, Manager, Certification Department, CertNexus

In the first of this two part-series, the panel level-set the expectations for workforce development, certifications, and shared some approaches for fixing the skills gap. This second panel will take a deeper look at the skills today's security teams need, discuss how it ties into mandates/frameworks, how the industry is looking at solving skills validation, and put forth additional and case studies. Panelists are members of the Cybersecurity Credentials Collaborative (C3).

Margaret Honda, Director of Academic Relations, IAPP 

Jon Brandt, Director of Professional Practices and Innovation, ISACA 

Tara Wisniewski, EVP, Advocacy, Global Markets and Member Engagement, ISC2

Filling Gaps in the Cyber Workforce

45 minute Breakout Session

James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist, CompTIA

Brian Correia, Director of Business Development, GIAC

Tara Wisniewski, EVP, Advocacy, Global Markets and Member Engagement, ISC2

This panel discussion features speakers from the Office of the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and several leading cybersecurity certification bodies. Panelists will discuss how the cybersecurity workforce has evolved and is becoming more standardized. Attendees will learn about the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF), the solutions it enables, and what the DoD and top certification bodies are doing to build the pipeline of both entry and specialized roles while incorporating real world skills into the cybersecurity workforce. You will learn and walk away with ideas on how the updated DoD 8140 mandate is poised to better prepare the Services to handle the increasing number of threats while building better inclusion and skills in the workforce. 

59 minutes

Jeff Felice, President, CertNexus

James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist, CompTIA

Brian Correia, Director of Business Development, GIAC

 Jim Wiggins, Founder & CEO, Federal IT Security Institute (FITSI)

Patrick Johnson, Director, Workforce Innovation Directorate, DoD, Office of the CIO

September 21-22

The panelist presented their respective commitments to narrow the cybersecurity skills gap in the European Union as part of the pledge of the Cybersecurity Skills Academy.

Driving Impact: Empowering Certifications through ECSF

Panelists identified the benefits of ECSF for certification, namely how a common language can support portability, identification of gaps, coherence, standardisation of cybersecurity roles and skills. Alignment or mapping of their respective organisations’ certifications with the ECSF as well as use cases were precious tools to support career paths. Panelists also touched upon key features of the ECSF (accessibility, simplicity), including in comparison with the NICE framework. They shared information on the uptake of the framework, concurring notably on a high uptake of the framework one year only after its publication, its relevance for end users, a use of the framework mainly for conducting trainings, It was identified that the framework could also be leveraged by human resources as well as to support the design of career pathways, in a similar fashion as the US tool Cyberseek.

Moderator

 Anne-Sophie DIEHL, DG CNECT, EC

Panelists

Sanjana MEHTA,ISC2

Vladlena BENSON, ISACA

 Brian CORREIA, SANS

James STANGER,CompTIA