Menlo Park, CA, United States, 06/25/2021 / Global Tech Council /
The cybersecurity sector continues to struggle with a global skills deficit. Even though the deficit has shrunk from 4 million to 3.1 million since last year, the 2020 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study revealed that more than half of IT and security professionals (56 percent) believe cybersecurity personnel shortages are putting their businesses at risk. This gap arises for a variety of reasons, including the challenge of attracting diverse talent to the field of cybersecurity.
Individuals who may not have traditional IT credentials or follow the usual career path that a business seeks might be recruited into the cybersecurity field. And one such