Appropriate new grant funding and direct grantmaking agencies to support organizations dedicated to grow the representation of underrepresented communities in the cybersecurity field.
Change how employers recruit cybersecurity workers to diversify and expand the talent pool.
Authorize and fund a national repository of K-12 cybersecurity resources.
Create and scale an industry-to-school pipeline for part-time instructors.
Elevate and scale apprenticeship models.
Create a leadership structure for coordinating federal cybersecurity workforce activities.
Improve equitable access to broadband Internet services for all communities.
Expand pay flexibility for all federal departments and agencies.
Increase funding for CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service to expand its focus.
Public Core Resilience
Designate the commercial space sector as critical infrastructure.
Publish a national strategy to secure the public core.
Create a new cyberspace office within the U.S. State Department.
Supply Chain Security
Promote security transparency.
Publish a national industrial base strategy to maximize competition and innovation.
Promote financial support for free and open source software.
Measuring Cybersecurity
Establish a Bureau of Cyber Statistics.
Assess the cost-effectiveness of cybersecurity frameworks and risk analysis tools.
Improve state and local law enforcement’s ability to report cybercrime incidents.
Establish a cross-sector partnership on modeling cybersecurity risk.
Operational Collaboration
Establish a National Cyber Director (NCD) to enhance public-private operational collaboration for proactive disruption and cyber event response.
Update federal law enforcement employee incentives to reward disruption of adversary operations.
Create a personnel exchange program between companies and federal agencies.
Direct and publish a review of legal barriers to deeper intelligence and operational coordination between federal agencies and private companies.
Create a framework to measure the outcomes of disruption and event response activities.