Strengthen cyber security workforce
Our people are the key to our success. To safeguard government, we must ensure the right people and processes are in place to mitigate risks, to respond quickly to cyber attacks, and maximise the security of new technologies as they emerge.
Objectives
- Strengthen the public service cyber security workforce through training and development.
- Establish cyber career pathways that guide training investment and talent development.
- Enhance insights into cyber workforce strengths and development opportunities.
- Provide access to relevant training suited to cyber career development plans.
- Develop cyber awareness activities to support capability uplift and build a sustainable security culture.
Taking a strategic approach to the cyber workforce
We will focus on building a cyber resilient workforce through 3 strategic priorities:
- Retrain and retain: Attract and retain valued talent.
- Enhance capacity: Understanding cyber skills supply and demand and enabling effective matching to opportunities for growth of the cyber talent pipeline.
- Nurture capability: Develop solutions to scale and enhance cyber security skills and learning across Queensland Government.
Building our cyber culture
Our resilience relies on our sector-wide cyber capability. We're embedding cyber skills at all levels of the sector to create and build a supportive cyber culture for Queensland.
We're fostering a culture of cyber security awareness and supporting capability uplift. Creating this environment helps us protect ourselves and our customers from cyber security threats. It also helps protect the integrity and availability of our services and information.
It empowers the Queensland Government and Queenslanders.
How we’ll get there
To deliver on our objectives, the Queensland Government will:
- working with industry and academia, provide actionable, practical advice to entities and leadership to support informed decision-making and protection against cyber threats
- enable agencies to assess the current cyber workforce to identify skills gaps and implement practices to meet evolving needs
- provide direction to tackle workforce challenges, create impactful opportunities and prioritise workforce diversity to bring new perspectives, capabilities and talent to bolster new and innovative approaches
- implement the Cyber Workforce Strategic Plan 2025–2027 to address emerging cyber workforce changes, focusing on training, attracting and retaining diverse talent
- utilise the Queensland Government cyber skills framework to build awareness of the skills, knowledge and attributes required in the cyber workforce
- support workforce development and maximise access to training for maintaining and enhancing cyber capabilities including through TAFE Queensland to provide cyber qualifications for public servants
- explore training opportunities (including for early career and professional talent) to address specific needs, strengthen public sector cyber security capability through reskilling, and retention programs to grow and retain cyber talent
- expand the reach and tailor cyber security awareness materials to highlight emerging scams and threats to public servants.