Cybersecurity hiring crisis: Rockstars, anger and the billion dollar problem

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http://www.zdnet.com/cybersecurity-hiring-crisis-rockstars-anger-and-the-billion-dollar-problem-7000032924/

By Violet Blue for Zero Day
ZDNet News
August 26, 2014

At no time in history has there been a greater need to hire security 
professionals to protect and defend infrastructures from an inexhaustible 
onslaught of organized crime, industrial espionage, and nation-state 
attacks.

A small talent pool, an inflated wage bubble and the high tensions of a 
virulent attack landscape have made cybersecurity's hiring crisis the 
"billion dollar" problem.

Richard Bejtlich, the Chief Security Strategist at FireEye said, "The 
prevalence of breaches is driving the creation of incident response teams, 
often from the ground up."

With Cisco's 2014 Annual Security Report projecting a global cybersecurity 
jobs shortage starting at 500,000 and domestically at least 30,000, the 
situation has become what James Arlen at Leviathan Security Group calls 
"literally the billion dollar question."

That's more truth than jest: the current state of infosec's tight talent 
pool means that its hiring challenges come with inflated price tags -- as 
well as all the problems that come with this singularly complex and 
specialized industry's "rockstar syndrome."

Bejtlich notes that in an acute shortage such as this, the top talent 
"make their own rules."

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