Cyber-CHAMP
Enabling Cybersecurity Workforce Development
What is Cyber-CHAMP?
Cyber Competency Health and Maturity Progression (Cyber-CHAMP) is a workforce development evaluation process. It was developed to help organizations and individuals enhance and or begin their cyber workforce development journey.
Traditional cybersecurity solutions focus heavily on process and technology to mitigate risk, while overlooking people. INL’s unique approach focuses on the people who are responsible for business strategy, process and practices to enhance cyber maturity via following:
- Assessing the cyber health and maturity of an organization.
- Identifying the most effective organizational cyber structure.
- Determining competency-based training programs.
- Recommending cyber education, training and certifications.
Workforce Evaluations with Industry
Small, medium and large organizations in the transportation/aviation
- Five major international airports – forecasted to double this in 2024
Small to medium critical manufacturing
- Local company focusing on manufacturing and machining whose customer base varies from the Department of Energy, mining, industrial, and food and beverage packagers.
Medium-sized Federally Funded Research and Development Center
- Idaho National Laboratory
Large federal organizations
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Transportation Security Administration
Support of state model risk management initiatives:
- Arizona
- Florida (Cyber Florida, statewide initiatives…)
Cyber-CHAMP Workforce – Sector Coverage
Workforce progression in over half the sixteen critical infrastructure sectors as follows:
- Water and wastewater
- Information technology
- Transportation
- Health care and public health
- Energy
- Defense industrial base
- Critical manufacturing
- Chemical
- Food and agriculture
Major Cyber-CHAMP Components
The Cyber-CHAMP framework steps back to determine if an organization’s first line of defense, its people, are prepared and empowered to combat the many threats that are sure to come their way. One of the unique elements of this framework is that it measures security from an organizational level as well as from an individual level. These measurements reveal gaps in security across the entire business ecosystem and will provide the data and visuals to help chart the best path forward.
The Cyber-CHAMP framework provides the structure to build security operational readiness and competency health. The framework is built from national and international workforce development research and application. It can incorporate multiple national and international standards and frameworks, and be applied to businesses of any size and any sector of work.
