We’ve all heard the familiar refrain any time cyber security professionals gather: There aren’t enough qualified security employees to fill the glut of available positions. In fact, Forbes recently went so far as to label this shortage of security workers a crisis.
The author of the Forbes piece, Brian NeSmith, CEO of security operations center-as-a-service provider Arctic Wolf Networks, argues that it’s this shortage, more than flawed security practices or the emerging set of tools hackers are using, that’s emboldening the bad guys.
“They’re doing everything they can to take advantage of understaffed firms that have little ability to prevent, detect and responds to attacks,” wrote NeSmith. “These companies are at high risk of suffering a data breach that may take years to recover from.”
Reading between the lines, the implication is that there’s nothing companies can do to shore up their security strategies more effectively than finding good people. And that means abundant opportunity for security pros.
That said, just because there are a ton of jobs for security workers to consider doesn’t mean they’re all good jobs. In fact, it can mean the opposite: Many…
