02/21/2017

Industry Group Raises Alarm About Cybersecurity Skills Gap

More organizations are hard at work trying to fill the information security roles

A new report from ISACA finds that the demand for cybersecurity positions outstrips the supply. Even if your association is focused on cybersecurity, finding qualified help could prove difficult.

Cybersecurity is all over the news lately, from Yahoo sending out warnings to users regarding potential malicious activity on their accounts, to Apple routinely sending out updates to iOS to patch vulnerabilities. Because of this, it’s no surprise that organizations are working to fill information security roles.

But they are running into a problem when doing do: There aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill these openings.

That’s the key finding from information systems association ISACA’s recently released State of Cyber Security 2017 report.

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