Thursday 6 October 2016

Enterprises Struggle to Hire, Retain Cyber-Security Pros, Survey Finds

Nearly half of all companies have difficulty recruiting the cyber-security workers, but are not training or offering career options to the workers they have, according to a survey.

Companies need to help their cyber-security specialists not only keep their skills up to date, but develop new ones, which is a hard idea to sell when these workers change jobs so often, according to a new survey released on Oct. 5 by the Information System Security Association.

The survey of more than 430 security professionals, conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group, found significant dissatisfaction among workers in the industry while underscoring the demand for these skilled employees and their good job prospects, a combination that highlights companies’ difficulties in retaining security workers.The survey found 56 percent of security professions believed their company did not provide adequate training to keep up their skills. At the same time, 46 percent of those workers received an offer to apply for another job at least every week. For the full article click here 



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