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Security Innovation and Lynx Technology Partners team up to equip ICMCP and help women and minorities enter the cybersecurity fieldWILMINGTON, Mass., July 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Security Innovation, an authority in Software Security Assessments and Training, and Lynx Technology Partners (Lynx), an expert in Integrated Risk Management, are leveraging their longstanding partnership to bring HRSG’s CompetencyCore, a SaaS platform that assesses skills and matches candidates to jobs, to ICMCP members. The self-service capabilities will be offered to all members for free, as will access to cybersecurity job boards and openings from hiring companies. “The cybersecurity industry has a massive talent gap. Women and minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in the field,” says Larry Whiteside, co-Founder and President of ICMCP. “Our non-profit was formed to address that very problem. Making CompetencyCore available to our members will help address the issue head on, and I thank HRSG, Lynx, and Security Innovation for making this happen for us.” CompetencyCore will be made available to ICMCP members to help them assess their skills, find relevant training, and apply to cybersecurity jobs. As part of a team effort, Lynx and Security Innovation lent their expertise to ensure safe and effective use of the platform. Lynx worked directly with CompetencyCore to map job descriptions to the NICE Framework and donated product management and engineering resources to optimize the CompetencyCore platform. Security Innovation provided its software security expertise to ensure privacy is protected. The platform also provides KSA (knowledge, skill, and abilities) development recommendations for those who want a certain job but aren’t yet qualified for it based on the NICE Framework. It automatically identifies skill deficiencies and members can fill those gaps via ICMCP scholarships, a program that includes security training from Security Innovation. “As a cybersecurity firm, one of our biggest workforce management challenges is finding a consistent way to assess talent to ensure job criteria are met,” said Ed Adams, CEO of Security Innovation. “Products like CompetencyCore remove this guesswork and match candidates to job requirements based on NICE KSAs which have widespread adoption in the industry,” he finished. “By building strong relationships with partners like Security Innovation and HRSG, Lynx Technology Partners is in a position to help support the mission of ICMCP, who has been a strategic alliance of Lynx since its inception,” said Aric Perminter, Founder and Chairman of Lynx Technology Partners. “Lynx is proud to offer our risk management professional services and expert knowledge of the CompetencyCore platform to help ICMCP bridge the talent gap in the cybersecurity field.” ABOUT SECURITY INNOVATION ABOUT LYNX TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS ABOUT ICMCP Media Contacts: Doug Yarabinetz |