Cybersecurity positions are increasingly difficult to fill and the long-term prospects for the industry don’t appear to be getting any brighter, Ericka Chickowski warns at the blog DARKReading. More than 25 percent of organizations take six months or longer to fill priority positions, she reports in “Desperately Seeking Security: 6 Skills Most In Demand.”
By 2022, Chickowski notes, there will be a global shortfall of cybersecurity workers of 1.8 million people, according to the Global Information Security Workforce Study conducted by Frost & Sullivan.