An estimated 4 million professionals are needed to fill the growing cybersecurity workforce gap, according to Fortinet. At the same time, Fortinet’s 2024 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report found that 70% of organizations indicated that the cybersecurity skills shortage creates additional risks for their organizations. In the past year, 90% of organizational leaders said they experienced a breach that they can partially attribute to a lack of cyber skills, up from 84% in the 2023 … More → The post Organizations change recruitment strategies to find cyber talent appeared first on Help Net Security.
Probably their biggest issue is that people who become talented with technology tend also to become radicalized against how our society is using it.
This is a perfect example: Why are we transitioning to digital environments before we’re actually capable of securing them? Trying to answer that question can lead to wondering about ulterior motives.
If an airline lamented that they didn’t have enough skilled pilots for all of their flights, you’d have serious questions about why they’re attempting to fly planes without skilled pilots, but apparently in the digital world this doesn’t even raise people’s eyebrows.