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(ISC)² – the world’s largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals – today released the findings of its 2020 Cybersecurity Workforce Study. 3,790 respondents, all of whom dedicate at least 25% of their time to cybersecurity tasks, were surveyed across Read More …
The UK’s widening cyber skills gap is putting the country’s businesses at risk, with uncertainty around Brexit is also proving to be a huge concern for recruitment in the field. This is according to research from cyber security consultancy RedSeal, which ran an Read More …
The UK government has launched a second audit of the country’s cyber security labour market in an effort to assess how companies across the country are handling the employment and training of IT professionals. Organisations across the public and private Read More …
The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a “chronic shortage” of qualified staff. That’s according to the founder of market analyst Cybersecurity Ventures, Steve Morgan. “The single biggest trend, globally, is that there are chronic work shortages of qualified Read More …
Salesforce fired two of its senior security engineers after they revealed details of an internal tool for testing IT defenses at DEF CON last month. Josh Schwartz, director of offensive security, and John Cramb, a senior offensive security engineer based Read More …
Huawei has appointed a cyber security officer for its operations in Australia. Malcolm Shore, who started this month, has worked for the New Zealand government overseeing its information systems. He follows the example of John Suffolk, the former UK government Read More …
Europe faces a projected skills gap of 350,000 cyber security workers by 2022, according to a new report. The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce study commissioned by the information security certification body ISC2 called for employers to do more to Read More …
Behind every new hack or data breach, there’s a company scrambling to put out the fire. That’s good news for job seekers with cyber security skills. Employers can’t hire them fast enough. The ISACA, a non-profit information security advocacy group, Read More …
