Workers gather in a California barbershop in July, closing amid new restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The city of Sacramento launched a workforce training program to recruit individuals that lost their jobs from pandemic fallout to cybersecurity. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
COVID-19 has caused devastating unemployment. Moodyâs estimates it could take until 2024 to recover the 22 million jobs lost. A highly motivated workforce is now stuck at home with no work.
The city of Sacramento saw this as an opportunity.
There, same as so many other locations across the country, cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled. In fact, the growth in work-from-home increased the cyberthreats facing businesses and exacerbated the ongoing struggle to find a trained workforce to meet demand for cyber skills. Â