The scramble for skilled cybersecurity people is on. All businesses, even small businesses, need the help of skilled men and women to protect themselves from cyberattacks and data breaches. This makes hiring the right people a priority.
Max Emilianov filed this report in Tripwire:
The good news is that there’s never been a better time to be a cybersecurity expert.
That bad news is that it’s because the market for cybersecurity professionals has never been tighter. As noted by Gartner senior research analyst Sam Olyaei, the unemployment rate for men and women with cybersecurity expertise is almost zero. There are more jobs than there are people to fill them; this skills gap is going to get worse before it gets better.
“If you’re a cybersecurity professional with any kind of skill set, you already have a job and multiple offers on the table,” Olyaei explained at last year’s Gartner Security & Risk Assessment Summit. “The talent shortage is here and it’s here to stay. It’s not going away, so we can either confront it or be left behind and lose our seat at the table.”
Therein lies the problem, though. How exactly does one confront it? After all, as a small business, you might not necessarily even have the necessary budget to hire a dedicated cybersecurity professional.
Here’s the thing, though – you need to do everything in your power to make the funds available. Large data breaches might make more headlines, but small businesses are targeted and successfully hacked far more often. Criminals know that a lot of smaller organizations don’t have big cybersecurity budgets.
