IT security
Increasing security risk due to shortage of skilled workers
The number of cyber attacks will continue to increase in the future. The reason: despite the advance of cloud computing, mobile computing and IoT, companies are not increasing the number of their IT security staff sufficiently - according to a study by Intel Security and CSIS.
"The government and the private sector have not tried with the urgency needed to address the skills shortage," said Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager at Intel Security.
© Intel Security"A lack of employees with IT security skills leads to direct damage for companies, such as the loss of copyrighted data and intellectual property," emphasizes James Lewis, Senior Vice President and Director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The results of the study show that this is a global problem. A majority of respondents in all countries surveyed were able to trace losses in their company due to a lack of knowledge. In the USA alone, around 209,000 cybersecurity jobs were unfilled in 2015. According to the report, there is no prospect of these positions being filled quickly.
The dimensions of the skills shortage identified by the experts from Intel Security and CSIS and the options they suggest for eliminating this shortage can be found in the study "Hacking the Skills Shortage: A study of the international shortage in cybersecurity skills". Computer&AUTOMATION has made it available for download in the white paper section.
Intel Security and CSIS commissioned the independent market research company Vanson Bourne for their study. In May 2016, the company surveyed a total of 775 IT decision-makers who are involved in the IT security of their organizations. These included 100 each in the UK, France and Germany, 75 each in Australia, Japan and Mexico and 50 in Israel. The respondents come from organizations with 500 or more employees - from both the private and public sectors.
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