Companies are pledged to help close the cyber skills gap by exposing more individuals to infosec courses. Still, experts would like to see more entry-level training and efforts to instill more confidence in prospective cyber professionals.
New research found that more than half of 18- to 24-year olds surveyed were more worried about deadlines than exposing the business to a data breach, and 39% were unsure what their organizations’ data security policies were. Nearly a third of this cohort, 31%, had tried to circumvent security measures.
In health care, shifting IT leaders into security positions is a common practice and one that is likely here to stay into the foreseeable future. The SANS Institute discusses the major risks to the process and ways providers can better equip IT leaders to succeed in security.
The ability to access core tech functions outside the hospital is no longer “nice to have”: it’s now a necessity. But greater tech adoption begs for stronger cybersecurity cultures across the health care enterprise.
Ultimately, all three quandaries come down to either a lack of funds or time that are needed to give infosec professionals the salaries, training and influence they seek. And most cybersecurity professionals will tell you that their organization could be doing more to overcome shortages in cybersecurity skills.
With a shortage of four million cybersecurity workers, we need to get more creative in identifying non-technical skills among potential candidates that can be applied to the cybersecurity realm. One way is to test them for aptitude and personality traits, like the career planning tests I took in college.That’s what the University of Maryland did […]
