Will AI threaten the role of human creativity in cyber threat detection?

Cybersecurity requires creativity and thinking outside the box. It’s why more organizations are looking at people with soft skills and coming from outside the tech industry to address the cyber skills gap. As the threat landscape becomes more complex and nation-state actors launch innovative cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, there is a need for cybersecurity professionals […]

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ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study: Shortage of AI skilled workers

AI has made an impact everywhere else across the tech world, so it should surprise no one that the 2024 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study saw artificial intelligence (AI) jump into the top five list of security skills. It’s not just the need for workers with security-related AI skills. The Workforce Study also takes a deep […]

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CISO vs. CEO: Making a case for cybersecurity investments

Ask CISOs why they think there is a cyber skills shortage in their organization, what keeps them up at night or what the most important issue facing the industry is — at some point, even if not the first response, they will bring up budgets. For example, at RSA Conference 2024, a roundtable discussion about […]

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Skills shortage directly tied to financial loss in data breaches

The cybersecurity skills gap continues to widen, with serious consequences for organizations worldwide. According to IBM’s 2024 Cost Of A Data Breach Report, more than half of breached organizations now face severe security staffing shortages, a whopping 26.2% increase from the previous year. And that’s expensive. This skills deficit adds an average of $1.76 million in […]

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The cybersecurity skills gap contributed to a $1.76 million increase in average breach costs

Understaffing in cybersecurity — the “skills gap” — is driving up the cost of data breaches in recent years, according to a decade of reports by IBM. The 2024 IBM Data Breach Report found that more than half of breached organizations experienced severe security staffing shortages, a 26.2% increase from the previous year. They found […]

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The Cyber Battle: Why We Need More Women to Win it

It is a well-known fact that the cybersecurity industry lacks people and is in need of more skilled cyber professionals every day. In 2022, the industry was short of more than 3 million people. This is in the context of workforce growth by almost half a million in 2021 year over year per recent research. […]

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Cybersecurity Trends: IBM’s Predictions for 2023

As with many other aspects of life and business, 2022 held fewer overall surprises in cybersecurity than in recent years — thank goodness. Instead, many trends brewing over the past few years began to take clearer form. Some were unexpected, and many were predictable, but all are important to consider when making plans for security […]

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How The Talent Shortage Changes the Approach to Cybersecurity

There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is that the number of cybersecurity professionals has reached an all-time high. According to (ISC)2’s annual Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 4.7 million people currently work in a security-related job.  The bad news: the study also found a worldwide gap of 3.4 million cybersecurity workers. 70% of […]

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Training the next generation of cybersecurity experts to close the crisis gap

The biggest threat to cybersecurity departments could be the lack of qualified employees, leaving companies vulnerable.
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