Security Breachdue to lack of skills

The gap due to lack of skills and talent in cybersecurity continues to grow.
A study by ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) highlights that 70% of companies are affected by this lack of resources.
Despite the importance that cybersecurity has taken as one of the basic pillars of digital transformation – even more so with the presence of forced teleworking – the gap generated by the absence of technical skills and the shortage of professionals continues to grow, according to a study by ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Up to 70% of skilled workers believe that their organization is affected by a lack of skills. In the last four years, this figure has grown by up to five percentage points.

In this way, this lack generates an extra and increasingly increasing workload for cybersecurity experts, who also have to take care of staff training and deal with insufficient resources. “We are so busy putting out fires that we have not taken time to learn how to take advantage of the tools,” they say.

Likewise, the gap is widened when it comes to application security, cloud, and analytics. Organizations are moving more and more workloads to the public cloud and are facing increasingly sophisticated threats, leading to bewilderment.

The report also highlights that only 7% of professionals believe that their company has improved its position in terms of cybersecurity in recent years. 45% say they have worsened and 48% believe they are in the same situation.

As final conclusions, the survey expresses that this shortage shows two aspects; on the one hand, that there are not enough professionals; on the other; skills are also in short supply.
Source: https://cso.computerworld.es/tendencias/la-brecha-por-falta-de-habilidades-y-talento-en-ciberseguridad-sigue-en-aumento
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