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The Cyber Workforce Intelligence Marketplace

Build, hire, and optimize your cyber workforce.

QuickStart is the cyber workforce intelligence marketplace, connecting cybersecurity skills, hiring, workforce growth, and validated readiness around one definition of capability. Candidates build skills and find relevant roles, while employers hire on verified evidence and plan around proven capability.

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Training partnerships AWS, Cisco, CompTIA, and Microsoft.

35+ years building cybersecurity talent.

Two routes in

Whichever side of the market you are on

QuickStart is two-sided by design. Both routes run on the same skills model, so a candidate’s evidence means something to an employer.

At a glance

QuickStart at a glance

QuickStart at a glance
What is QuickStart? The Cyber Workforce Intelligence Marketplace.
Who uses it? Cyber professionals, employers, universities, and government and workforce programs.
What does it do? Connects skills, hiring, workforce growth, and validated readiness in one system.
Primary products SkillsIQ (build), HiringIQ (hire), and AdaptIQ (plan and optimize).
Platform capabilities Skills Ontology, Skills Wallet, AI Cyber Labs, Skills Verification, Job Market Data, and the Cyber Talent Community.
Outcome Measurable cyber workforce readiness.

One definition of capability, shared by everyone who uses it.

The problem

The market doesn’t lack training. It lacks proof of readiness.

Training platforms, job boards, applicant tracking systems, and staffing firms each solve part of the problem. Four systems, four versions of the truth, and no shared view of readiness.

Proof of readiness is evidence that a person can perform the work a role requires, validated rather than asserted, and readable by everyone who needs it: the candidate, the hiring team, and whoever is planning the workforce.

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  • Staffing

    Expensive and slow. Long cycles and high cost burn budget while critical security roles stay open.

  • ATS

    No intelligence. Workflow-first systems and keyword filters hide real capability instead of surfacing it.

  • Job Boards

    Low signal. Volume and generic postings rarely reflect who can actually do the cyber work.

  • EdTech

    No job outcomes. Course completions do not become evidence hiring managers and auditors can use.

The solution

One marketplace. One view of readiness.

QuickStart connects skills, hiring, workforce growth, and readiness in one cybersecurity marketplace. Organizations see where capability gaps exist, who is validated for critical roles, and which workforce investments produce measurable outcomes. Candidates build evidence in the same system, making their capabilities easier for employers to assess.

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  • Know your team is ready, not just trained

    Readiness is measured against what each role requires, not against course completions.

  • One definition of capability

    Hiring, learning, and planning all read from the same skills model, so the numbers agree.

  • Evidence both sides can read

    What a candidate validates is the same thing an employer evaluates. That is what makes it a marketplace.

The products

Build, hire, and optimize your cyber workforce

Cyber workforce intelligence connects hiring, learning, and workforce planning through one model of cybersecurity capability. Role requirements, individual evidence, and the training needed to close gaps use the same structure. Three products share one intelligence engine and one view of capability.

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QuickStart marketplace connecting skills, hiring, growth, and readiness.

The products

  • Build

    SkillsIQ

    One skills framework everywhere, from learning and hiring through to workforce readiness.

  • Hire

    HiringIQ

    Hire on proof, not résumés. Validated talent matched to the work you need done.

  • Plan and optimize

    AdaptIQ

    Workforce intelligence and planning built on a shared view of the capability you hold.

Cyber AI Recruiter · Automate hiring

The acquisition product. Automates sourcing and screening, and connects into HiringIQ.

A closed-loop cyber workforce system · Build skills › hire talent › grow capability › validate readiness › repeat.

How it works

One continuous journey from skills to readiness

Skills, community, hiring, employment, workforce growth, and validation stay connected in one system, creating a continuous cycle of workforce intelligence and improvement.

  1. Step 1

    Discover

    Define the cyber roles your organization needs, and see where the skill gaps sit.

  2. Step 2

    Assess

    Put people through real-world simulations and skill assessments, so you see proof.

  3. Step 3

    Learn

    Assign role-aligned training paths that close the exact gaps you found.

  4. Step 4

    Community

    Connect to the cyber talent community, where practitioners and employers meet.

  5. Step 5

    Validate

    Score every candidate and employee against the competencies each role demands.

  6. Step 6

    Hire

    Match verified talent to open cyber positions using skill-backed profiles.

  7. Step 7

    Employment

    The outcome the loop exists to produce: people in cyber roles they can do.

  8. Step 8

    Grow

    Give every team member a skills-based progression path, so talent grows with you.

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Enterprises, universities, job seekers, and government agencies served by the platform.

Who it's for

Employers, schools, job seekers, and workforce programs

Cyber talent exists across all of them. QuickStart connects skills, hiring, workforce growth, and validation, so every stakeholder works from the same view of capability.

One skills model. Four different questions answered from it.

Free to start

Free cybersecurity career tools

These free tools show where you stand and what to do next: a recommended role, skills gaps, a career pathway, or a profile employers can verify.

  • Skills Wallet

    Your free evidence layer. Records skills, credentials, and completed learning.

  • Cyber Career Assessment

    Returns a recommended role and a career blueprint built around it.

  • Cyber Skills Assessment

    Returns a named list of the capabilities you hold and the ones you do not.

  • Career pathways

    The routes between cyber roles, and what each move asks you to build first.

  • Salary data

    Earning ranges by role, capability level, and location.

  • Résumé and profile tools

    Role-specific résumé versions and a profile employers can verify.

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What makes it work

What makes the marketplace work

Six capabilities underpin every product. They are not sold separately, and they are why hiring, learning, and workforce planning share one definition of capability.

Skills Ontology
A structured model of cyber capability: every role mapped to the skills it requires, and every skill to the tools, credentials, and learning around it.
Skills Wallet
The candidate identity layer, where skills, assessments, credentials, and completed learning are recorded as evidence.
AI Cyber Labs
Hands-on environments where capability is practiced and demonstrated against realistic security work.
Skills Verification
Turns a claimed skill into evidence an employer can evaluate, recorded one capability at a time.
Job Market Data
What cyber roles actually ask for, drawn from live hiring demand rather than assumption.
Cyber Talent Community
Where practitioners, learners, and employers meet around the same definitions of capability.

Capabilities, not products. They underpin SkillsIQ, HiringIQ, and AdaptIQ rather than being sold alongside them.

Evidence

Proof, not claims

The same standard QuickStart applies to candidates applies here. Each item below states a relationship or an outcome that can be checked, rather than a claim that cannot.

  • Customer or learner story

    One named outcome

    A single story carried end to end: the problem, what was done, the skills built, how they were validated, and what happened next, as a quote from the person it happened to.

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  • Research

    The current flagship asset

    QuickStart’s own workforce research, published and linked rather than summarized, so the underlying method is visible.

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  • Third-party validation

    Relationships, stated exactly

    Credly official validation and named partner relationships, each described precisely rather than gathered under a single trust claim.

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Named expert or executive, with credentials

Linked to a full profile, so the expertise behind the platform is attributable to a person.

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Everything QuickStart does, in five places

Five categories, organized around what you came here to do.

QuickStart is the Cyber Workforce Intelligence Marketplace. We sit above your hiring, learning, and workforce tools and turn fragmented data into one skills-first view: learn against real roles, hire on evidence, and reskill teams from shared definitions, rather than a patchwork of job boards, courses, and ATS exports.
A training marketplace sells courses and a job board lists openings. Neither tells you whether someone can do the work. QuickStart connects the skills a role requires, the evidence a person holds, and the learning that closes the difference, so training, hiring, and planning all use one definition of capability.
Cybersecurity professionals building a career, employers hiring and developing cyber teams, universities preparing students for real roles, and government and workforce programs measuring readiness. The same skills model serves all of them across five areas: Job Seekers, Learn, Employers and Organizations, Cyber Community, and Resources.
A skills ontology is a structured model of cybersecurity capability: every role mapped to the specific skills it requires, and every skill connected to the tools, credentials, learning, and hiring demand around it. Define it once and hiring, learning, and workforce planning stay in sync.
AI scores candidates against the competencies a role actually demands and returns a breakdown a hiring manager can explain, rather than a ranking they have to trust blindly. On the career side, it matches people to roles by capability instead of keywords, and shows which skills would still need evidence.
QuickStart is built to sit above the systems you already run rather than replace them, so skills data moves between your applicant tracking, learning, and HR systems and each one reads from the same definition of capability.
In part. Creating a Skills Wallet, assessing your skills, and exploring cyber roles and career paths are free. Skills validation and personalized learning paths are paid, so you can find out where you stand before anything costs you.
Find cybersecurity jobs matched to your skills, work out which role fits you, see which skills you already hold and which are missing, close the gaps, validate what you can do, build a profile employers can verify, and connect with the cyber community.
Skills-based hiring against verified capability, development and reskilling for the team you already have, and workforce planning built on a shared view of the cyber skills across your organization, so hiring, learning, and planning work from one definition of capability.

FAQ's

Frequently Asked Questions

What QuickStart is, who it serves, and how skills, hiring, and readiness connect.

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Build or become part of a stronger cyber workforce

Whether you are building cyber teams or your own career, QuickStart connects skills, hiring, workforce growth, and readiness in one marketplace.

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