The notion of a job for life appeared to have withered away from contemporary existence as surely as Luddites were ejected from the workforce in the early 19th Century.
The ongoing rise of automation, machine learning and the so-called march of the robots meant that humans could not rely on a lifelong career using learnt skills. Even knowledge workers would have to have portfolio skills to survive.
This, however, does not seem to apply to cybersecurity. A recent report from Cisco reported there was a global skills shortage of more than one million people, as governments and corporations belatedly address the seemingly ubiquitous dangers of cybercrime.
Moreover, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 209,000 US cybersecurity jobs without candidates and jobs are up 74% over the past five years. The same analysis says that demand for cybersecurity professionals will grow 53% through 2018. For the full article click here
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