CISA to keep cyber pay incentives, but less staff will qualify
Executive Summary
CISA will continue offering cyber pay incentives to retain technical staff, but revised criteria will limit eligibility to certain job series and performance ratings, raising concerns about potential staff attrition.
Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: DataBreaches.net - Published Date: 2026-10-05T22:55:13+00:00 - Category: other
Original Description: Justin Doubleday reports: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is continuing to offer cyber pay incentives to retain skilled technical staff, but less employees will qualify for the program under revised criteria that ties eligibility to job series and performance ratings. The revised policy has sparked some concern that CISA could lose more staff after... Source
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