Cyber Security Survey Part 3: How is the talent shortage affecting you?
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News Data Security csw cyber security talent shortageCanadian Security recently conducted a Cyber Security Survey, sponsored by Trustwave. Respondents answered four questions pertaining to cyber security in their businesses. You can find the answers to Question 1 here and Question 2 here.
Question 3: How is the cybersecurity talent shortage most impacting your infosec program?
Lack of new applicants for open positions (5.41%)
Difficulty finding personnel with the exact skillsets we require (54.05%)
We have had better results by re-training existing personnel (40.54%)
Comments:
“Too many people want to specialize to much. Need to be more of a jack of all trades.”
“While there are a number of cybersecurity training institutions, we feel we are better off at retraining existing staff for security roles.”
“Can’t get the people we require.”
The answers to question 4 will be available tomorrow.
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