Closing the Awareness Gap Requires a Team Effort

The effort to close the cybersecurity awareness gap requires collaboration and coordination between multiple academic and professional stakeholders.

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Cybersecurity Hiring Woes? Time to Consider a New Collar Approach

IBM is leading an industrywide effort to close the IT skills gap by hiring new collar professionals who lack formal degrees but possess requisite skills.

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Overcoming the Skills Gap With On-the-Job Training

Organizations can address the cybersecurity skills gap by looking to tap the pool of millennials entering the information security workforce.

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Five Strategies to Help Recent Graduates Close the Awareness Gap

IT leaders are struggling to find qualified job candidates due to an awareness gap and the inability of recent graduates to articulate their skills.

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The Cognitive Analyst and Artificial Intelligence

It’s natural for security professionals to be nervous, but Watson is designed to augment the role of the cognitive analyst, not replace it entirely.

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Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap With a New Collar Approach

In response to the ever-widening cybersecurity skills gap, many organizations are hiring new collar workers to fill open IT positions.

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The IT Gig Economy: Are Freelances or FTEs Your Best Fit?

While CISOs may prefer to hire full-time security professionals, many organizations are leveraging the gig economy to bridge the cybersecurity skills gap.

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Cybersecurity Leadership in Transition: A View From the Classroom

Cybersecurity leadership courses traditionally focus on imparting subject matter expertise, but the next generation of CISOs must also be trusted advisors.

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Inside the National CCDC: Building Cybersecurity Skills for the Future

A Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) offers technology companies such as IBM an opportunity to network with and recruit aspiring IT analysts.

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Representation of Women in Cybersecurity Remains Stagnant, Despite Recent Efforts to Balance the Scales

According to a new study, the gap between men and women in cybersecurity barely closed since 2015 despite widespread efforts to raise awareness.

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