Will New Hires Impede Future Security?

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By Eric Chabrow
Bank Info Security
April 16, 2013

The rush to find qualified IT security professionals to meet current 
cyber-threats could jeopardize IT systems' security in the 
not-too-distant future, say two leading IT security experts, Eugene 
Spafford and Ron Ross.

Spafford, a Purdue University computer science professor, and Ross, a 
leading IT security and information risk management expert at the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, presented differing 
views, at times, on the role cloud computing performs in helping 
mitigate information risk in the first of a two-part interview [see Can 
Moving Data to Cloud Reduce Risk?].

Here, in part two, both experts generally agree about the threat posed 
to organizations in recruiting IT security personnel for existing 
challenges - including securing the cloud - because the new hires might 
not be prepared to address future cyber-threats.

Are the U.S. federal government and others being too short sighted in 
the way they recruit IT security personnel today? Perhaps, Spafford 
suggests in the discussion with Ross, moderated by Information Security 
Media Group. By attempting to "shorten the pipeline" to find qualified 
IT security personnel, the types of people being hired might not have 
the wherewithal to meet future cybersecurity needs.

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