Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org The Cybersecurity 202: The government’s facing a severe shortage of cyber workers when it needs them the most August 3, 2021 “We need leadership to pay attention and to see it as their responsibility to own getting the right [cyber] talent into government, and by and large they don’t do that and it’s a big problem,” Max Stier, head of the Partnership for Public Service, told lawmakers during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on cyber hiring.