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On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage

Schneier on Security

In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The number of unfilled jobs leveled off in 2022, and remains at 3.5

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Battling Burnout: A Growing Concern for CISOs and Security Professionals

SecureWorld News

As defenders of digital assets, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and cybersecurity professionals face immense pressure, often leading to burnout. This phenomenon is not just anecdotal; several studies have highlighted the alarming prevalence of burnout in the cybersecurity industry.

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GUEST ESSAY: Cisco-Splunk merger will boost Snowflake – here’s how security teams can benefit.

The Last Watchdog

Splunk’s inability to migrate to a modern cloud-native architecture makes it difficult to take advantage of these cost-saving benefits or implement advanced data science use cases critical for threat detection. Influxes of data ingestion and the flat architecture of data lakes have led to difficulties in extracting value from repositories.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Here’s the final installment of leading technologists sharing their observations about cybersecurity developments in the year that’s coming to a close — and the year to come. CISOs will have to get quantum resilient encryption on their cyber roadmap. What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024?

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Top-Paying Tech Jobs Highlight New Roles, Cybersecurity Tie-ins

SecureWorld News

What caught my eye were two things: 1) The number of these jobs that did not exist 10, five, or even one or two years ago; and 2) How many of the roles are tied to cybersecurity—directly or indirectly. Artificial Intelligence Engineer 4. Cybersecurity Manager 5. DevOps Engineer 7. Machine Learning Engineer 8.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. Constantly playing catch-up seems to have become the unfortunate norm in the cybersecurity industry. by David Ratner, CEO, HYAS ( www.hyas.com ). The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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New SEI CERT chief and first ever federal CISO: old cybersecurity models have ‘been overcome’

SC Magazine

Touhill brings a rich and diverse background to the role, having spent years protecting military computer networks as an Air Force brigadier general and later serving as director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integrations Center at the Department of Homeland Security. He was then appointed as the first-ever U.S.

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