Cybersecurity recruitment in crisis

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https://www.csoonline.com/article/3075293/leadership-management/cybersecurity-recruitment-in-crisis.html

[Nearly three years since this article came out and cybersecurity 
recruitment is still in crisis.  - WK]


By Richard Starnes
CSO
May 25, 2016

Globally cybersecurity is in crisis not solely from a lack of skilled 
personnel, but also from a lack of strategic direction and companies 
inability to hire staff in an expedient, effective and efficient manner.

ISSA, (ISC)2, ISACA, Cisco, and PwC have all released major studies 
showing the cybersecurity skills gap has reached a crisis point worldwide. 
The number of positions to be filled vary widely from each study, but the 
majority of them put the gap at over a million positions by the end of the 
decade. One might go so far as to call it a cybersecurity skills gulf. 
This is not a new challenge, but one that has been developing over time.

Industry and educational institutions have moved to address the critical 
shortage of cybersecurity skills. Universities have launched bachelors, 
masters and PhD programs with cybersecurity concentrations. My alma mater, 
Royal Holloway, University of London launched one of the world's first 
master's degree programs in 1992, graduating over 2,000 students to date.

Cybersecurity professionals have responded with the creation of 
cybersecurity skills certifications such as the now venerable (ISC)2 
CISSP, started in 1994, with more than 100,000 holders worldwide. Law 
makers and governments have sought to address this issue with legislation 
and funding.

A significant aspect of cybersecurity that has not been addressed, to the 
point of neglect, is the recruitment process. Cybersecurity has been 
identified as one of the highest growth, high salary careers over the next 
decade. With the proliferation of high paying, secure jobs come a flood of 
job seekers into every aspect of the cybersecurity market including 
recruitment.

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