{"id":25687,"date":"2023-08-15T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/08\/15\/automation-may-help-as-us-agencies-struggle-to-hire-it-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:10:00","slug":"automation-may-help-as-us-agencies-struggle-to-hire-it-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/it-networks\/2023\/08\/15\/automation-may-help-as-us-agencies-struggle-to-hire-it-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation may help as US agencies struggle to hire IT workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nearly a year away from the deadline imposed by the White House to meet zero-trust goals, a third of federal agencies say they won\u2019t have a fully staffed cybersecurity team to implement them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those in the tech space have joked, facetiously, that that\u2019s where AI can come in: to do the jobs that there aren\u2019t humans for. But in a jest there is some truth: automation and other accessible forms of artificial intelligence <\/a>can help supplement hiring efforts or at least relieve IT teams of rote processing to focus on more involved projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think automation, artificial intelligence \u2014 those are things that are absolutely going to help those folks do more with the resources they do have,\u201d said Cody Cornell, chief strategy officer at Swimlane, a supplier of automation software to industry and government. \u201cI\u2019ve spent almost two decades at this point working in security, and I\u2019ve never been fully staffed and never really expected that I would [be], I think what people need is some mechanism of a force multiplier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t