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Cybersecurity workforce solutions

Build, Hire, and Optimize
Your Cyber Workforce

  • Hire Talent
  • Develop Talent
  • Plan Your Workforce
  • Solutions by Organization

See where capability exists, identify the gaps that matter, and choose whether to hire, develop, or plan next. QuickStart connects cyber workforce development and talent decisions through skills-based insight.

Assess Your Cyber Workforce Explore Workforce Solutions

Choose your workforce route

Start with the workforce decision in front of you

Hire for a capability, develop the people you have, plan what comes next, or explore solutions shaped around your organization.

  • Hire Cyber Talent

    Build a stronger shortlist with skills-based signals that go beyond titles, resumes, and certifications.

    Explore hiring

  • Develop Cyber Talent

    Focus upskilling and reskilling on the roles, skills, and workforce priorities your organization needs.

    Develop talent

  • Plan Your Cyber Workforce

    Make hiring, development, and mobility priorities clearer with a better view of capability and gaps.

    Plan your workforce

  • For Organizations

    Explore dedicated routes for employers, security teams, partners, public-sector bodies, and education providers.

    Find your route

Hire, develop, or plan with clearer workforce visibility.

Hire cyber talent

Build a stronger shortlist with better evidence

HiringIQ helps employers structure cybersecurity roles around the capabilities they require, then evaluate candidates using skills-based signals alongside experience and credentials. Use the Hire Cyber Talent hub to explore the wider hiring journey.

Explore Hire Cyber Talent Explore skills-based hiring

  • Define the capability

    Describe the work and skills the role requires, not only the title or years of experience.

  • Look beyond the resume

    Use experience, credentials, and relevant skills evidence to build a more complete view.

  • Give managers clearer context

    Make the shortlist easier to evaluate before the technical interview begins.

Develop cyber talent

Build what you cannot hire

Cyber workforce development starts with the work your organization needs done. Use role and skills priorities to guide upskilling, reskilling, and focused learning, then review progress against the intended capability.

Step 1

Set the priority

Identify the business or operational need behind the workforce decision.

Step 2

Define the role

Agree on the work and capabilities the role requires.

Step 3

See the starting point

Compare current skills and evidence with the target capability.

Step 4

Build a focused path

Direct learning toward the gaps that matter most.

Step 5

Review progress

Reassess the evidence before the next workforce decision.

Explore Developing Cyber Talent

Plan your cyber workforce

Turn workforce visibility into a clearer plan

Workforce planning is easier when hiring, development, and mobility decisions use the same view of roles, skills, and gaps. AdaptIQ is the platform-level intelligence layer that connects these decisions across the QuickStart ecosystem.

Explore Workforce Planning Explore skills gap analysis

  • See capability clearly

    Create a clearer view of the roles, skills, and evidence already inside the workforce.

  • Prioritize critical gaps

    Focus on the gaps that matter most to operational needs and workforce goals.

  • Decide what to build or hire

    Turn visibility into clearer development, recruitment, or mobility priorities.

AdaptIQ powers and unifies SkillsIQ for learners and HiringIQ for employers.

For organizations

Choose a workforce route that fits how your organization operates

Different buyers carry different accountabilities. Explore dedicated routes for security teams, talent leaders, staffing and service partners, public-sector bodies, universities and colleges, and workforce boards.

Explore For Organizations View all organization routes

  • Employers and security teams

    Connect cyber hiring, development, and planning to the capability the organization needs.

  • Talent and staffing partners

    Explore skills-based routes for sourcing, assessing, and developing cyber talent.

  • Public sector, education, and workforce partners

    Build pathways around public-service, learner, and regional workforce priorities.

QuickStart helps employers hire cyber talent, develop existing or incoming talent, and plan workforce priorities. HiringIQ supports employer hiring and talent workflows, SkillsIQ supports learner development, and AdaptIQ provides the platform-level intelligence layer. The Employers & Organizations Hub connects those routes.
Start by defining the role through the capabilities it requires, not only titles or years of experience. Then compare candidates using a balanced view of experience, credentials, and relevant skills evidence. The goal is to give hiring teams clearer context before the interview.
Skills can be evaluated against a defined role or capability using evidence such as assessments, practical exercises, projects, certifications, or prior work. The most useful result is specific enough for a hiring manager or development lead to understand what the person can demonstrate.
Start by assessing whether the capability already exists inside your organization. Develop or redeploy people when adjacent skills and potential are present. Hire when the capability is genuinely missing or the need is immediate. Many workforce plans use a deliberate mix of all three.
Begin with the roles and capabilities that matter most. Compare that need with current workforce evidence, identify the priority gaps, and decide what to develop, hire, or redeploy. Review the same capability measures over time so the organization can see whether the gap is changing.
Yes. QuickStart can support organizations that want to develop employees toward cybersecurity roles. Start with transferable skills, define the target role, and focus learning on the gaps between them. Explore the Develop Cyber Talent route to compare the options relevant to your workforce.
Cyber workforce intelligence brings together information about roles, skills, gaps, talent supply, and workforce priorities to support better decisions. It helps leaders decide what capability to build, hire, or redeploy next. AdaptIQ is QuickStart's platform-level intelligence layer for this work.
QuickStart supports employers, CISOs and security teams, HR and talent acquisition, MSSPs, staffing companies, government and public-sector bodies, universities and colleges, and workforce boards. The For Organizations hub routes each audience to the information most relevant to its needs.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about cybersecurity workforce solutions

Use these answers to compare the four routes, then choose the workforce decision that needs attention first.

Your next workforce decision

See what to build, hire, or plan next

Assess the capability you have, identify what is missing, and choose the workforce route that supports your next decision.

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