The need for cybersecurity professionals continues to grow around the world, but growth of the workforce has slowed for the first time in six years. To help fill the gap, practitioners are looking to build their skillsets to become more efficient and strategic at work.
Despite an increasing cybersecurity workforce gap (4 million jobs and counting), new analysis from ISC2 finds that women continue to be underrepresented in the profession and the industry has made little progress towards significantly increasing the number of women with cybersecurity jobs.
Cybersecurity is becoming a cornerstone of organizations’ growth strategies. This puts cybersecurity leaders in the spotlight, with rising influence and rising responsibility, according to Deloitte Global’s fourth Global Future of Cyber report.
Despite rising cyber risks, the global active cyber workforce has stalled at 5.5 million people, leaving a gap in the current needed workforce of 4.8 million people, according to an annual ISC2 study.
Security practitioners have increasingly turned to monitoring Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to detect and prevent attacks. Artificial intelligence, however, may be on the cusp of changing OSINT as a discipline.
