American-Japanese multinational cybersecurity software company Trend Micro says it will be expanding its education partnerships across Canada this year.
As part of Trend Micro’s recent partnership with Simon Fraser University, which launched in September 2020, the software company says it’s providing course lectures, lab exercises and assessments in cloud security to the first cohort of the university’s new Professional Master’s Program in Computer Science – Cybersecurity Concentration.
The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) reports a global shortage of skilled cybersecurity workers estimated to reach 1.8 Million by 2022. Even some of the conservative estimates are disheartening. The 2017 GISWS report predicts that North America will have 265,000 more cybersecurity positions than skilled workers by 2022. It also reports that 68 per cent of IT professionals feel there are too few security workers in their organization.