Addressing Cybersecurity's Talent Shortage & Its Impact On Cisos
DARKReading, Tuesday, August 29,2023
CISOs need to educate all arms of the business on security best practices so it becomes part of the business culture, thus expanding who's keeping watch. Automating routine tasks will help scale security.
The cybersecurity sector continues to face a dire talent shortage as the threat landscape evolves, according to recent research from ISC2, and the skill gap is only growing. In fact, the organization found that the global cybersecurity workforce grew to encompass 4.7 million people in 2022 but that there is still a need for more than 3.4 million security professionals, an increase of over 26% from 2021's numbers.
What's behind this growing shortage? We're seeing organizations shift their approach to cloud-first strategies to achieve greater scale and flexibility. At the same time, they're using more than one cloud technology provider and multiple database providers, resulting in more work, more alerts, and more data. This creates a need for new tools, changes in practice and skill, and overall involvement due to complexity. On top of this, in today's economic climate, CISOs don't have the budgets or enough people to absorb the demand.