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Cybersecurity workforce solutions
for employers

Build a cyber workforce around the capability you need. QuickStart connects HiringIQ talent decisions, SkillsIQ team development, and AdaptIQ planning. Choose a starting point for your next workforce priority.

Build

Your employer workforce model

The capability your organization needs

A clear starting point for the next decision

Employer priorities

  • HiringIQ, SkillsIQ, AdaptIQ

Build a cyber workforce

  • Hire
  • Learn
  • Plan
  • Build
Build

Choose the next workforce priority

Hire. Develop. Plan.

Employer model: build, hire, develop and plan a cyber workforce.

The employer workforce model

How employers build a cyber workforce

Define the work, review existing capability, and decide what to develop or hire. QuickStart's cybersecurity workforce solutions connect hiring through HiringIQ, development through SkillsIQ, and planning through AdaptIQ.

Explore Workforce Planning

  • Hire for the work

    Connect role requirements with candidate skills and supporting evidence.

  • Develop existing capability

    Focus learning on the skills behind a workforce priority.

  • Plan the next requirement

    Understand capability gaps before investing in hiring or development.

Hire Cyber Talent

Hiring decisions with skills context

HiringIQ helps employers consider candidate capability against role requirements. Bring security and recruiting teams into a shared conversation about skills and evidence when additional cyber talent is the priority.

Explore HiringIQ

  • Role requirements

    Define the work and skills before evaluating candidates.

  • Candidate capability

    Consider skills and experience relevant to the responsibilities.

  • Evidence review

    Review supporting evidence and questions to investigate.

Develop Cyber Talent

Team development through SkillsIQ

SkillsIQ supports development around defined skills needs. Choose the readiness, learning, or reskilling route that fits your team's priority and the capability the work requires.

  • Team readiness

    Focus development on a team priority.

    • Relevant skills and roles
    • Evidence for development priorities
    • Focused learning priorities
  • Learning paths

    Connect a learning route with the skills the work needs.

    • Learning aligned with role requirements
    • Focused development goals
    • Context for reviewing progress
  • Reskill and redeploy

    Explore development for changing roles.

    • Transferable skills and target-role needs
    • Development for a different responsibility

Plan Your Cyber Workforce

Workforce planning through AdaptIQ

Use AdaptIQ's planning approach to frame capability needs and workforce priorities. Explore intelligence and diagnostic routes to inform hiring and development decisions.

AdaptIQ powers SkillsIQ and HiringIQ as the shared intelligence platform

A starting point for employers

The workforce need comes first

Cyber talent solutions for employers start with the capability you need. Choose the route that fits your immediate decision, whether you have a vacancy, a development priority, or a planning question.

Explore For Organizations

  • A role to fill

    Define responsibilities and skills, then explore HiringIQ talent evaluation.

  • A team to develop

    Identify the capability to strengthen, then explore SkillsIQ development.

  • A workforce to plan

    Clarify future requirements and gaps, then explore AdaptIQ planning.

Your employer workforce conversation

Your employer starting point

Bring one workforce priority to the conversation. Explore the relevant product route, discuss current scope and access, and agree what your organization needs next.

  • Share the requirement

    Describe the role, capability, or workforce question to address.

  • Explore the relevant route

    Discuss the product fit and evidence you need next.

  • Agree the next step

    Choose a next step around your requirements and access options.

Talk to Us

Specialized organization routes

The route for your team or operating model

Use this Employers page for a broad workforce need. When the decision centers on a particular team or operating model, explore the relevant specialist page for more focused context.

  • CISOs and security teams

    Connect workforce decisions with security leadership and operational requirements.

  • HR and talent acquisition

    Bring shared skills criteria into recruiting and HR decisions.

  • MSSPs

    Explore workforce needs for managed security services.

  • Staffing companies

    Explore cyber talent needs across your clients' workforces.

  • Government and public sector

    Connect workforce needs with public-sector responsibilities and mission.

  • Universities and colleges

    Explore education providers' role in cyber workforce development.

Skills context for employers

Skills context across workforce decisions

AdaptIQ powers SkillsIQ and HiringIQ as a shared intelligence platform. Skills Wallet gives learners a portable skills profile. Employers can review the context behind capability claims to make discussions about development or potential role fit more specific.

Profile

Skills Wallet

Review relevant experience, learning, credentials, and evidence in the context of the work.

Context

Shared skills language

Connect the discussion with skills and roles that describe the capability your organization needs.

Decision

Employer priorities

Use relevant evidence to inform the next hiring, development, or planning question. Your organization owns the decision.

Employers build a cyber workforce by defining the roles and work they need to cover, then reviewing existing capability. Use that comparison to decide which needs call for hiring and which call for development. QuickStart connects these choices across HiringIQ, SkillsIQ, and AdaptIQ. Start with one workforce priority and the evidence behind it. Agree an owner for the response and review progress against the skills and responsibilities involved.
Yes. QuickStart helps organizations hire and train cybersecurity talent, supported by workforce planning. HiringIQ supports candidate evaluation, SkillsIQ supports development, and AdaptIQ supports intelligence and planning. Cybersecurity staffing and training address different parts of a workforce need. Define the capability you need, then follow the relevant product page for its scope and current access information. Select Talk to Us to discuss which route or combination fits your organization.
Start with the decision you need to make. If you have a defined vacancy, explore Hire Cyber Talent. If the priority is strengthening existing capability, explore Develop Cyber Talent. If the requirement or gap needs clarification, explore Plan Your Cyber Workforce. You can also select Talk to Us and share one workforce challenge. Bring the people who understand the work so the conversation stays focused on relevant skills and evidence.
HiringIQ supports employer hiring decisions by connecting role requirements with candidate capability and evidence. SkillsIQ supports development through learning experiences aligned with skills needs. AdaptIQ provides the shared intelligence foundation and the workforce planning route. Your starting point depends on the decision, not the product name. An employer may need more than one route as priorities change. Review the relevant product pages and discuss current scope and access with the team.
A point solution usually focuses on one workforce task, such as recruiting or training. QuickStart connects planning, hiring, and development, with AdaptIQ powering SkillsIQ and HiringIQ. Each product has a distinct purpose. For example, a workforce planning question may reveal a need to hire for one role and develop skills in an existing team. Explore the relevant routes together and evaluate each offer against your organization's requirements.
Skills Wallet is a portable skills profile in the SkillsIQ learner experience. It gives people a place to organize experience, learning, credentials, and supporting evidence. For employers, this context helps focus the discussion on capability relevant to a role. Review the evidence behind each skill claim and the responsibilities involved. Explore HiringIQ for the employer hiring context and ask the team to demonstrate the current viewing experience.
This Employers page helps organizations choose across hiring, development, and planning. If your need centers on a specific team or operating model, follow the relevant page for CISOs and security teams, HR and talent acquisition, MSSPs, staffing companies, government and public sector, or universities and colleges. The For Organizations parent also provides the wider audience overview. Choose the route that matches who makes the decision and the work they need to support, while keeping the broader workforce goal in view.

Frequently asked questions

Employer workforce
FAQs

Answers about building a cyber workforce, hiring and training, where to start, and which product fits your needs.

Your next employer workforce decision

Your next cyber workforce decision

Build a cyber workforce around the capability you need. Continue to AdaptIQ, or talk to us about the right hiring, development, or planning route.