An international shortage of cybersecurity talent is expected to grow over the next few years, according to the Information and Communications Technology Council.
The council’s vice-president of talent innovation, Sandra Saric, said there’s an expected need for more than 1.5 million people to work in cybersecurity globally by 2020.
Solving the talent shortage was one of the challenges emphasized by government and private industry executives at a cybersecurity forum at the GTEC conference in Ottawa on Tuesday. It’s an annual technology event that brings together business and government.
“Getting more people to take science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses and degree programs, and also training them to be cybersecurity savvy is probably the first challenge,” said Scott Jones, assistant deputy minister responsible for the information technology security program with Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). For the full article click here
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