Thursday, February 20, 2020

Is the cybersecurity skills gap real?

An independent guest blogger wrote this blog.
If you do a web search for “cybersecurity skills gap,” you’ll get many, many pages of results. It’s certainly a hot topic in our industry. And it’s a matter that security practitioners and human resources people often disagree on.
But before I get further into the matter, it would help to know what it is we’re talking about when we use the phrase “cybersecurity skills gap.”
From the perspective of employers, it means that potential job applicants don’t have the specific cybersecurity skills they’re looking for, and possibly the people they already employ don’t have the skills to be promoted into new cybersecurity related positions. This can be a really tricky area, because computer technology evolves very quickly, and often universities, colleges, and vocational schools…

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