https://www.cyberscoop.com/nist-japan-workforce/
By Cynthia Brumfield
CYBERSCOOP
Nov 8, 2018
While all organizations around the globe continue to grapple with chronic
shortages of qualified cybersecurity workers, Japan is tackling the
problem in a significant way by turning to two U.S. government technology
frameworks to help manage its own information security manpower shortages.
Japanese industry has turned to the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and National Initiative for
Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Framework in an effort to fill
the unique cybersecurity skills gap characteristic of Japanese companies.
Speaking at NIST's Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference in Baltimore,
Maryland, Masato Kimura, a manager in the cybersecurity R&D planning
department at Japanese telecom giant NTT, said that the NIST workforce
framework in particular plays a pivotal role in Japan due to the high
level of reliance by Japanese companies on outsourced IT and cybersecurity
personnel.
In the U.S., around 71.5 percent of IT professionals work in-house, but in
Japan, only 24.8 percent are company employees, according to Kimura.
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