Building and Maintaining a 'Certifiable' Workforce

By leveraging widely accepted and respected industry certifications and developing a solid training program to assist in obtaining them, employers can ensure that their staff is appropriately educated and continually motivated towards meeting and exceeding company goals. This program can also be used as a retention tool for current and future employees by highlighting it as part of the employee compensation and benefit package, and providing advancement and/or incentives based on completion of certification classes/approved certifications. Within the information technology profession, this has a huge ancillary benefit of strengthening the information security community as a whole through more effective knowledge gain.