Thursday 20 October 2016

Tech industry ponders how to fill Colorado’s 10,000 cybersecurity job openings

On a recent visit to an unnamed government intelligence organization, Ed Rios spotted cybersecurity specialists using virtual reality to suss out the bad guys. Another was monitoring 50 simultaneous chats.

That led Rios, the new CEO of the National Cybersecurity Center in Colorado Springs, to ask, “What jobs do you need the most?”

“I was thinking it would be technology or software or something with algorithms,” Rios said. “His response was: ‘I need anthropologists and sociologists. I need people to know how to think about cultures, about change and about the way we look at cyber and why cyberhactivists do what they do.’”

The shortage of tech workers is apparently at its most scarce in the cybersecurity world. Rios, speaking at the Colorado Technology Association’s Tech Summit on Wednesday, said that in Colorado alone, there are 10,000 job openings in cybersecurity. We need to think differently about how to fill those jobs, he said. For the full article click here 

 



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