Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/too-few-cybersecurity-professionals-is-a-gigantic-problem-for-2019/

By Robert Ackerman
TechCrunch
January 27, 2019

As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good 
news on the cyber front. Major cyber attacks have been in a lull in recent 
months and still are.

The good tidings are fleeting, however. Attacks typically come in waves. 
The next one is due, and 2019 will be the worst year yet -- a sad reality 
as companies increasingly pursue digitization to drive efficiency and 
simultaneously move into the "target zone" of cyberattacks.

This bad news is compounded by the harsh reality that there are not nearly 
enough cybersecurity pros to properly respond to all the threats.

The technology industry has never seen anything quite like it. Seasoned 
cyber pros typically earn $95,000 a year, often markedly more, and yet job 
openings can linger almost indefinitely. The ever-leaner cybersecurity 
workforce makes many companies desperate for help.

Between September 2017 and August 2018, U.S. employers posted nearly 
314,000 jobs for cybersecurity pros. If they could be filled, that would 
boost the country's current cyber workforce of 714,000 by more than 40%, 
according to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. In light 
of the need, this is still the equivalent of pocket change.

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