Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage Projected at 1.8 Million by 2022
The results from the eighth Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) have been released this week. The workforce gap is estimated to be growing, with the projected shortage reaching 1.8 million professionals by 2022. While the gap is not news, the fact that it is growing is of great concern to an already exhausted workforce. The question of how to fill the gap has been answered, and millennials are an integral part of the plan. “For years, we’ve known about the impending shortage of the information security workforce, as evidenced by our study year over year,” said David Shearer, CEO,…
Source: blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/2017/02/cybersecurity-workforce-gap.html
I was talking to a young college student this evening. She could barely spell Cyber security. I told her to look into the program at her school on Tuesday.
She is an early childhood ed major, or as I call it “Adventures in Babysitting”.
Plenty of people who can do that, we need more people in STEM.