How the growing cybersecurity threat is creating millions of jobs

Hackers and cybercriminals keep getting smarter and more sophisticated, making government and private IT professionals scramble to keep up. Perversely, it’s also creating job opportunities.

Increasingly, vulnerable organizations don’t have the people they need to defend themselves. That’s the takeaway from astudy by Foote Partners, which tracks IT jobs across all skill levels.

Its report estimates the demand for cybersecurity professionals will climb to six million by 2019, with an anticipated shortfall of about 1.5 million.

The reason, the report argues, is a skills gap. There aren’t enough people trained to defend databases and networks from attack, or who have the latest skills required to do so. Some of the people who are in place aren’t the right people, the study argues, since the whole field has rapidly changed with the mushrooming threat. For the full article click here 

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