DHS and its sub agencies such as the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are seeking to hire 1000 computer and web security experts (analysts, developers and engineers) over the next three years. These new positions will fulfill critical security roles that include cyber risk and strategic analysis, internet incident response, vulnerability detection and vulnerability assessment, intelligence and investigation, and network and systems engineering.

Janet Napolitano US Secretary of Homeland Security stated that she wants to make the DHS into a “world-class cyberorganization.” Critics of this new initiative says that the DHS will be hard-pressed to find that number of quality security experts.