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 sector have been chosen at random to contribute to the study, with responses helping to shape government policy and efforts to tackle shortages of talent.
The government will be hoping to see some measure of improvement over last year’s audit, which found that of the roughly 1.3 million businesses in the UK, around 710,000 (55%) had a ‘basic technical cyber security skills gap’. In other words, organisations not confident with performing simple tasks, such as creating backups, setting admin rights, and managing secure settings.
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Source: ITPro