Good IT talent is hard to find. You know what’s even more difficult? Finding good cyber security talent. Demand for skilled cyber security professionals is growing at an astonishing rate — four times faster than the IT jobs market and 12 times faster than the overall labor market, according to research from Burning Glass Technologies.
Unfortunately, supply isn’t keeping up with demand, according to online cyber security training and MOOC platform Cybrary’s Cyber Security Job Trends Survey for 2016. Of the 435 senior-level technology professionals who completed the survey between October and December 2015, 68 percent affirmed that there is a global shortage of skilled cyber security professionals. Only 13 percent of companies said there was an abundance of cyber security talent in their local areas.
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