In the current year, Russia entered a three-year transitional period for the implementation of professional standards designed to replace the traditional regulations of the Unified Qualification Handbook (UQH) for the positions of executives, specialists and employees. Several professional standards have been approved for the field of staffing of information security. However, from the higher school point of view, the existing variety of approved professional standards can hardly be used as a normative basis for the improvement and development of the existing system of educational standards in the information security area, although such an obvious conceptual task was set in the framework of the transition from UQH to professional standards. This paper analyses foreign experience in solving this problem using rather impressive example of the United States. A systematic study of the labor (personnel) resources structure in the cybersecurity field was carried on within the framework of the national initiative for cybersecurity education, which is proposed as a fundamental reference resource. That resource can be used to guide the various category users, including educational organizations, to solve their tasks of providing labor resources in the field of cybersecurity. The cybersecurity workforce framework (CWF) components include such categories as specialty areas, work roles, knowledge, skills, abilities and tasks (performed for any kind of work). The paper analyzes the presented CWF, its content, as well as its important role in harmonizing the Russian educational standards in the field of cybersecurity.