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title: Staffing and Work Force
description: ICS4ICS provides staffing and work force tools and resources in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory. Access self-assessment tools and job role tasks summaries for OT, Cybersecurity, IT, and NIMS/ICS jobs.
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# Staffing and Work Force

## ICS4ICS Staffing and Work Force Tools and Resources

ICS4ICS  created Work Force Development data for OT/Industrial Control System, Cybersecurity, IT, and NIMS/Incident Command System roles.   The project created tools to help asset owners to do the following:

- Define jobs that can be used to hire staff and manage their training and development plans
- Complete a self-assessment of skills required by staff to ensure they can perform tasks required for their job(s) and help develop plans to address skill gaps
- Leverage the skills self-assessment tools to evaluate staff from alternative staffing sources
- Ensure staff are available to perform ICS4ICS and Cyber Incident Response job functions and identify staffing alternatives like: 
    - Vendors of IACS system, IT support components, networks, and other components may be critical to help investigate incidents and provide solutions including recovery
    - System Integrators, Managed Service Providers, and other consultants who perform day-to-day support or periodic system upgrades are critical to perform Computer Incident Response and may also be required to participate in system recovery if they perform backups
    - Reciprocal Agreements with other companies like yours who agree to support each other if one of the companies is impacted by a cyber incident
    - Paid service companies perform high-tech functions that are critical to investigate and resolve incidents, which may include forensics and malware reverse engineering 

### Resource Links

| ICS4ICS WFD-Summary of all Role Tasks | [ View/Download Resource ](https://www.ics4ics.org/hubfs/ICS4ICS-WFD-Summary-of-all-role-tasks.docx?hsLang=en) |
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| ICS4ICS WFD Self Assessment Tools | [ View/Download Resource ](https://www.ics4ics.org/hubfs/WFD%20Self%20Assessment%20Tools.zip?hsLang=en) |
| ICS4ICS Work Force Project Overview Video | [ View/Download Resource ](https://www.ics4ics.org/hubfs/ICS4ICS%20Resources/Work%20Force%20Development%20to%20help%20Prepare%20for%20Cyber%20Incidents.mp4?hsLang=en) |
| Mutual Aid ICS4ICS Procedure Template | [ View/Download Resource ](https://www.ics4ics.org/hubfs/ICS4ICS_MutualAID_Procedure_Template.docx?hsLang=en) |