The cyberattack called SolarWinds carried out against the United States government has been characterized as a collective leadership failure. The United States Federal Government is confronted with the brutal reality of an understaffed or under-skilled cybersecurity workforce and a need for more competent leaders. The focus of federal organizations is increasingly shifting toward management and organizational efficiency. As a result, more and more of these companies are turning to executive coaching to strengthen the leadership abilities of government supervisors. Executive coaching has emerged as a prominent trend in recent years, becoming increasingly popular in pursuing organizational performance, business capacity, and leadership development. This study uses a qualitative research approach to explore the value and benefit of executive leadership coaching as a tool for developing technical managers.
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In the United States, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) oversees the national effort to identify, manage, and eliminate risks to our cyber and physical infrastructure. The agency connects business and government stakeholders to each other and to information, analysis, and tools to help them create cyber, communications, and physical security and resilience, ensuring a safe and resilient infrastructure for the American people (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023).
CISA collaborates to ensure cyber system security, resilience, and reliability. We collaborate with the private sector, academia, and government partners to cultivate a diverse cyber workforce, promote safe technologies, and promote best practices (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023). CISA shares information deploys detective and preventative technologies, publishes technical products and recommendations, and provides incident response and “hunt” skills to mitigate detected problems and a shifting threat landscape. CISA delivers critical infrastructure, SLTT governance, and capability-building services, information, and assistance to improve critical function cybersecurity risk management and raise the federal cybersecurity baseline (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023).
CISA helps critical infrastructure stakeholders and partners strengthen national security and resilience. CISA consolidates and coordinates timely dissemination of cyber and physical threat information; provides incident-specific intelligence context and products to support decision making; and delivers CISA programs and services through 10 Regional hubs to support stakeholders as they prepare, respond, recover, and mitigate incidents (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023).
CISA assesses risk to prioritize risk management. CISA creates risk management solutions to strengthen critical infrastructure and handle emerging and long-term hazards to National Critical Functions. Election Security and Resilience; Information and Communication Technologies Supply Chain Risk Management; Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Networks; cybersecurity for Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbance, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing; and Pipeline Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023).
CISA creates creative and collaborative partnerships to help government and private sector stakeholders make informed and voluntary risk management decisions and investments. Multi-channel communication activities to establish public trust and understanding so stakeholders and the American people respond positively when called to act boost the Nation's readiness (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023).