Cybersecurity’s success is measured by silence — no news to report, no breaches to clean up and no cyberattacks to recover from.
Silence is achieved by the estimated 805,000 cybersecurity professionals in the U.S., according to an international (ISC)² survey of more than 3,200 individuals “responsible for security/cybersecurity.”
(ISC)² estimates the cybersecurity workforce is 2.8 million people. “It’s not an easy group to pin down, which is why it hasn’t been done before. Now that we are establishing a clearer picture of what the actual scope of the challenge is, we can begin to solve the problem together as an industry,” Wesley Simpson, COO of (ISC)² told CIO Dive in an email.
For professionals considering a job in cybersecurity, the outlook is promising. Not only is there a 0% unemployment rate, cyber touches on every aspect of the business, he said.
“One of the key successes cybersecurity professionals revealed in the study was that they become a go-to resource for colleagues and can raise their profile within their organizations,” said Simpson.
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