Navigating a challenging cybersecurity skills landscape

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By Chris Dimitriadis
Contributor
CSO
March 12, 2019

As much as tools and technology evolve in the cybersecurity industry, 
organizations remain reliant on clever, well-trained humans with incisive 
critical thinking skills to protect themselves from the perilous cyber threat 
landscape. But just as the threat landscape continues to expand, so, too, does 
the corresponding skills gap that puts organizations at risk of major financial 
losses and irreversible damage to their brand reputations.

Finding and retaining a sufficient pool of qualified cybersecurity 
professionals grows ever more challenging, as reflected in ISACA’s recent State 
of Cybersecurity 2019 research. The retention piece can be especially 
problematic, particularly for organizations that face substantial resource 
limitations. Better financial incentives, such as higher salaries and more 
lucrative bonuses, overwhelmingly came across as the top reason why 
cybersecurity professionals change jobs, with other considerations such as 
career development opportunities and better work culture/environment also 
factoring in among the leading reasons.

The State of Cybersecurity 2019 report reveals several problematic data points 
about the current cybersecurity workforce outlook, including:

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