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CybersecurityIndustry Brief

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e mission of the Montgomery Workforce In-vestment Board (WIB) is to help businesses suc-ceed through workforce services. e WIB is apublic-private partnership that assists theCounty in connecting business with job seekers.e WIB oversees MontgomeryWorks and pro-vides liaison to the County Executive andCouncil.

e 30-member board is appointed by theCounty Executive in accordance with theWorkforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 andMontgomery County Executive Order No.159-02. e members are specified in law andby an executive order are largely business own-ers, community – based organizations, educa-tional institutions, labor unions, and others.

MontgomeryWorks served over 12,000 adultand youth residents in FY12. Montgomery-Works provides core services, intensive counsel-ing services and occupational skills training toboth businesses and individuals.

Business services include:

Assistance in recruitment including spe-•cialized recruitments, job fairs and accessto local candidates through unlimited jobpostings using the Maryland WorkforceExchange

Interview and recruitment event space •Local labor market information and re-•search Active jobb openings in a searchable•statewide database Assistance in identifying trainers and ex-•pert speakers

e WIB’s Strategic Plan calls for aligning allservice delivery to industry needs. e Work-force Investment Board has selected three in-dustry sectors, of which Cybersecurity is one,in support of the Strategic Plan. e industrieswere selected based on the following criteria:

Industries that were either high growth•and high demand or high wage.Examined initial industry sectors for align-•ment with Economic Development tar-gets.Examined policy implications – for vendor•selection process; for diversity of occupa-tions.

Details are available at the MontgomeryWorkswebsite www.montgomeryworks.com

About the Montgomery County Investment Board

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Key Findings

Cyber security is the body of technologies, processes and•practices designed to protect networks, computers, pro-grams and data from attack, damage or unauthorized ac-cess. It is a branch of computer technology known asinformation security as applied to computers and net-works.Cybersecurity is a county and state priority.•ere are close to 38,000 cybersecurty jobs in Mont-•gomery County. Cybersecurity sub-sector makes up5.87% of total employment in Montgomery County.For comparison, in Maryland the percentage of cyberse-curity jobs in the state economy is 3.9%; in HowardCounty, 6.8%; and in Frederick County, 3.7%.ere are over 70 employers, some of which are the•largest employers in the county, with operations relatedto cybersecurity.Cybersecurity sub-sector has outperformed the overall•economy in terms of historic job growth over the pastfive years. Seven out of eleven occupations in the sub-sector have grown at 1%-12% rate.Location Quotients, which describe the concentration of•jobs in a particular industry or occupation relative to thenational average, for all occupations in the sub-sector areabove the national average. Projected employment growth over the next ten years is•positive for all, but two occupations. In 2012 there wereapproximately 1200 openings in the sub-sector fromentry level jobs that require an associate’s degree to highlevel jobs requiring bachelors degrees and above.e median hourly earnings for employees in the Cyber-•security sub-sector is $41, while the overall medianhourly earnings are $26.

What is Cyber Security Industry?

Cyber security is the body of technologies, processes and prac-tices designed to protect networks, computers, programs anddata from attack, damage or unauthorized access. It is abranch of computer technology known as information secu-rity as applied to computers and networks.

Ensuring cyber security requires coordinated efforts through-out an information system. Elements of cyber security in-clude:

Application security - encompasses measures taken•throughout the application's life-cycle to prevent excep-tions in the security policy of an application or the un-derlying system vulnerabilities through flaws in thedesign, development, deployment, upgrade, or mainte-nance of the application.Information security - (sometimes shortened to InfoSec)•is the practice of defending information from unautho-rized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification,perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. It is a gen-eral term that can be used regardless of the form the datamay take (electronic, physical, etc.) Network security - provisions and policies adopted by a•network administrator to prevent and monitor unautho-rized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a com-puter network and network-accessible resources.Disaster recovery / business continuity planning - Disas-•ter recovery (DR) is the process, policies and proceduresthat are related to preparing for recovery or continuationof technology infrastructure which are vital to an organi-zation after a natural or human-induced disaster.[1] Dis-aster recovery is a subset of business continuity.[2] Whilebusiness continuity involves planning for keeping all as-pects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptiveevents, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technologysystems that support business functionsEnd-user education - e integrity of company's critical•resources and confidential data can be significantly af-fected by end-users. Educating them about the signs ofmalware and phishing attacks can increase overall secu-rity and make employees a vital part of a successful de-fense strategy.

County Priority

e National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)located in Gaithersburg announced a new partnership to es-tablish the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, apublic-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread

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adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies.e State of Maryland and Montgomery County, Md., areco-sponsoring the center with NIST, which will work tostrengthen U.S. economic growth by supporting automatedand trustworthy e-government and e-commerce.

NIST’s fiscal year 2012 appropriations provided $10 millionto establish the public-private partnership to operate the cen-ter. It will provide a state-of-the-art computing facility nearNIST’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus, where researchers fromNIST will work collaboratively with both the users and ven-dors of cybersecurity products and services. e center willhost multi-institutional, collabo-rative efforts that build on ex-pertise from industry andgovernment.

Federal and State Activity

Maryland has a critical mass offederal agencies and informationtechnology companies that placeit as a national epicenter of fed-eral cybersecurity activities. Fed-eral cybersecurity facilitiesinclude NSA, Defense Informa-tion Systems Agency (DISA), In-telligence Advanced ResearchProjects Activity, the NationalInstitute of Standards and Tech-nology, and 12 major militaryinstallations (including FortMeade in Anne Arundel Countywhich is home to the U.S. CyberCommand).

e Pathways to CybersecurityCareers Consortium received a$4.9 million grant over threeyears from the U.S. Department of Labor to increase thepipeline of skilled cybersecurity professionals with appropriateindustry certifications. Consortium members include work-force agencies, community colleges, businesses, industry ex-perts, government agencies, educational institutions, andcommunity organizations.

e State of Maryland has been very active in cybersecurityincluding a cybersecurity summit in 2010.

Current Employment in Major Industry Sectors

Cybersecurity is part of the Professional, Scientific, and Tech-nical Services sector. Overall number of jobs in the Profes-sional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector is over 98,000.Cybersecurity related jobs constitute estimated 40% of thesector.

Figure 1. Source: EMSI 2013.1 Complete Employment.

Distribution of Employment by Industry Sector


Employment in Cybersecurity Sub-Sector

Cyber security specialists may be described as workers whoprotect the data and systems in networks that are connectedto the Internet. Main occupational categories for cyber secu-rity specialists are:

Computer Programmers ▪ Computer Support Specialists ▪Computer and Information Scientists ▪ Computer SoftwareEngineers ▪ Computer Systems Analysts ▪ Database Adminis-trators ▪ Network and Computer Systems Administrators ▪Network Systems and Data Analysts.

Jobs (2013) % Change (2007-2012) Median Earnings38,851 2.60% $41.06/hr

County Location Quotient: 2.23 Nation: 3.8% Nation: $35.89/hrMaryland Location Quotient: 1.51 Maryland: 7.9% Maryland: $38.83/hr

Overview

Occupation Details

SOC Description 2007 Jobs 2012 Jobs Change % Change

2012LocationQuotient

2013 AnnualOpenings

MedianHourly

EarningsAvg. Hourly

EarningsEducation

Level

11-3021

Computer andInformation SystemsManagers 2,615 2,649 34 1% 2.14 677 $62.95 $64.52

Bachelor's orhigher degree,plus workexperience

13-1111 Management Analysts 11,310 12,030 720 6% 2.81 115 $37.41 $38.62

Bachelor's orhigher degree,plus workexperience

15-1111

Computer andInformation ResearchScientists 761 852 91 12% 7.75 55 $55.16 $52.19

Doctoraldegree

15-1131 Computer Programmers 2,542 2,316 (226) (9%) 1.58 52 $37.39 $38.56Bachelor'sdegree

15-1132Software Developers,Applications 4,057 4,155 98 2% 1.88 51 $45.18 $48.19

Bachelor'sdegree

15-1133Software Developers,Systems Software 3,648 3,906 258 7% 2.47 41 $44.88 $44.48

Bachelor'sdegree

15-1141 Database Administrators 827 893 66 8% 1.95 53 $44.31 $43.92Bachelor'sdegree

15-1142Network and ComputerSystems Administrators 2,553 2,500 (53) (2%) 1.83 54 $40.44 $41.82

Bachelor'sdegree

15-1159Computer SupportSpecialists 4,368 4,349 (19) 0% 1.69 23 $28.14 $30.22

Associate'sdegree

15-1179

Information SecurityAnalysts, WebDevelopers, andComputer NetworkArchitects 3,392 3,416 24 1% 2.38 26 $40.40 $40.90

Bachelor'sdegree

17-2061Computer HardwareEngineers 1,014 994 (20) (2%) 3.43 24 $49.22 $49.68

Bachelor'sdegree

Total 37,087 38,059 972 3% 1,171 $41.06 $42.22

Source: EMSI 2013.2. EMSI's proprietary employment data, combined with occupation-specific percentages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projec-tions program.


Here Annual Openings is an estimated employment changeand turnover for an occupation for a given year. is isEMSI's estimate of labor market demand for an occupation,and when combined with Related Completions (see Table 6)gives a picture of the supply and demand of the occupation inthe region.

e majority of openings (948) require Bachelor’s or higherdegree, plus work experience, 55 openings require Doctoraldegree and 23 openings require Associate’s degree.

Distribution of Employment by OccupationMontgomery County, 2012-2017

Source: EMSI 2013.2. EMSI's proprietary employment data, combined with occupation-specific percentages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics Employment Projections program.


Employers

Company NameEmployment

2012 NAICS NAICS

Lockheed Martin-Information Sys-tems & Global Services (IS&GS) 5000 541712

Research and Developmetn in the Physical, Engi-neering, and Life Sceinces (except Biotechnology)

International Business Machines(IBM) 1500 423430

Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipmentand Software Merchant Wholesalers

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. 1000 541611Administrative Management and General Manage-ment Consulting Services

Terrapin Systems, Inc. 500 541519Administrative Management and General Manage-ment Consulting Services

BAE Systems Support Solutions 400 541712Research and Development in the Physical, Engi-neering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)

URS Corporation 400 541330 Engineering Services

Energy Enterprise Solutions LLC 300 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

Opnet Technologies, Inc. 300 541511 Custom Computer Programming ServicesEMC Corporation-Rockville 300 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

DRS Signal Solutions Inc 300 334290 Other Communications Equipment ManufacturingClient Network Services Inc 200 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

Hewlett Packard 200 42430Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipmentand Software Merchant Wholesalers

Digital Management, Inc. 200 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesDataprise Inc. 140 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

ViaSat 100 541611Administrative Management and General Manage-ment Consulting Services

Infozen, Inc. 90 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesComtech Mobile Datacom Corpo-ration 80 541511 Custom Computer Programming ServicesInfozen, Inc. 80 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesCatapult Technology, Ltd 80 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

Abacus Technologies Corporation 70 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

3eTi Technologies 60 517210 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satel-FCN Technology Solutions 60 Not available


Employers


2012 NAICS NAICSCommunications SupplyCorporation 60 517210

Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (exceptSatellite)

Digital Infuzion, Inc. 50 541511 Custom Computer Programming ServicesTISTA Science and TechnologyCorporation 50 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

Attronica Computers, Inc. 50 423430Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipmentand Software Merchant

Corporate Network Services, Inc. 40 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesDRS Defense SolutionsHeadquarters 40 334290 Other Communications Equipment ManufacturingFidelis Security Systems, Inc. 30 511210 Software Publishers

GMV Space Systems, Inc. 30 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services

JackBe Corporation 30 541511 Custom Computer Programming ServicesSystalex Corporation 30 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesIpx International Systems, Inc. 30 Not available

Not available

KoolSpan 20 423430Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipmentand Software Merchant

Sonatype, Inc. 10 Not available

Caelum Research Corporation 10 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services

Fedstore Corporation 10 423430Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipmentand Software Merchant

SafeNet 10 Not availableVariQ 10 541519 Other Computer Related ServicesAlion Science and TechnologlyCorp. 10 541711 Other Computer Related ServicesArxan Technologies 10 541519 Other Computer Related Services

Banyan Technology Solutions, In. 10 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesAdvanced Digital Forensic 1 511210 Software Publishers

Federal IT Consultants (FEDITC) 1 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesLongview InternationalTechnology Solutions, Inc. 1 Not available



2012 NAICS NAICSLORE Systems 1 517110 Wired Telecommunications CarriersAster Engineering, Inc. 1 541512 Computer Systems Design ServicesTriumfant, Inc. 1 Not available

Westerly Enterprises Onmicrosoft 1 541512 Computer Systems Design Services

Employers

2012 Jobs38,059

2015 Jobs39,767

Change (2012-2015)1,708

% Change (2012-2015)4.5%

Projected Employment Growth

Jobs (2013)31,851

National Location Quotient: 2.23

% Change (2012-2015)4.5

Nation: 7.9%

Median Earnings$41.06/hr.

Nation: $35.89/hr.

Montgomery County Growth


Occupation 2012 Jobs 2015 Jobs Change % ChangeComputer andInformation SystemsManagers (11-3021)

2,649 2,675 26 1%

Management Analysts(13-1111) 12,030 13,337 1,307 11%

Computer andInformation ResearchScientists (15-1111)

852 869 17 2%

Computer Programmers(15-1131) 2,316 2,312 -4 0%

Software Developers,Applications (15-1132) 4,155 4,271 116 3%

Software Developers,Systems Software (15-1133)

3,906 4,030 124 3%

DatabaseAdministrators (15-1141)

893 933 40 4%

Network and ComputerSystems Administrators(15-1142)

2,500 2,562 62 2%

Computer SupportSpecialists (15-1159) 4,349 4,350 1 0%

Information SecurityAnalysts, WebDevelopers, andComputer NetworkArchitects (15-1179)

3,416 3,452 36 1%

Computer HardwareEngineers (17-2061) 994 976 -18 -2%


CIP Code Institution Title Award Level2011

Completions

11.1002American Career Institute-Wheaton

System, Networking, andLAN/WANManagement/Manager

Award of less than 1academic year 38

52.0201 DeVry University-Maryland

11.0901

Computer SystemsNetworking andTelecommunications Masters degree 1

52.1201Management InformationSystems, General Masters degree 1

11.0101 Montgomery CollegeComputer and InformationSciences, General Associates degree 33

11.0201

ComputerProgramming/Programmer,General

Award of at least 1 but lessthan 2 academic years 11

11.0801

Web Page,Digital/Multimedia andInformation ResourcesDesign


11.0801

Web Page,Digital/Multimedia andInformation ResourcesDesign Associates degree 15

11.0901

Computer SystemsNetworking andTelecommunications


11.1003

Computer and InformationSystemsSecurity/InformationAssurance Associates degree 6

11.0401Washington AdventistUniversity

InformationScience/Studies Bachelors degree 4

11.0701 Computer Science Bachelors degree 3Source: EMSI 2013.2. Workforce Module.

Educational programs

Four institutions in Montgomery County offer programs for occupations in cybersecurity

ere are 51 institutions in Maryland, 13 institutions in the District of Columbia and 17 institutions of higher education inNorthern Virginia that offer cybersecurity related training programs.


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