Exec: Feds' efforts to tackle cyber skills gap lacking in details

The federal government, spurred by an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) initiative, is looking to a tackle a skills gap that is "a significant impediment" to improving cybersecurity, according to a 2016 memorandum by OMB officials. As part of efforts to address the skills gap, the OMB announced in September 2018 the "Cloud Smart" strategy. In a notice of proposed rulemaking requesting public commentary on the strategy, OMB said the strategy would focus on three specific areas to improve cloud technology adoption and further modernize existing legacy technology used by the government: security, procurement and workforce. However, the announcement didn't provide a lot of detail, Dave Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector organization at technology provider Red Hat, wrote in Nextgov.