The information security news is not all bad, despite the annual August double-tap of Black Hat and DEF CON. The raft of vulnerabilities revealed at those two events can leave you feeling like everything’s hacked and hopeless, but fortunately some folks are busy addressing one of the main reasons that the struggle to protect information systems can seem like an uphill battle: the global shortage of skilled security practitioners, predicted to reach 1.5 million by 2020*. In the United States there are currently more than 209,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs and the demand for information security professionals is expected to grow by 53 percent through 2018 (according to an independent study cited by CSO Online**).
NICE news about the cybersecurity skills shortage (and a call for papers)
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