The tech talent shortage in Australia is at an all-time high, with cyber skills in particularly short supply. The pandemic didn’t help. There aren’t any quick fixes, but there are things we can do today that will alleviate the problem and put us on a path to a bigger industry in the future.
The federal government’s commitment to invest $9.9 billion in the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) cyber capabilities is a much-needed boost for the country’s cybersecurity skills landscape. But it will take time for the government’s investment to pave the way for lasting change. Right now, we’re looking at a full decade for the so-called REDSPICE investment to run its course, and other efforts to build the cyber skills pipeline in Australia are likely to take years to bear fruit.
While we wait for top-down initiatives to come to fruition, we need to find ways to manage our cyber posture amid a fast-evolving threat landscape and a legislative framework that is making cyber safety and data security board-level issues. There are three broad areas we can invest in today to lay the groundwork for the next generation of cyber professionals.
Education
When it comes to cybersecurity, the individual is often the weakest link. Often, most successful cyber attacks aren’t the result of brute force techniques but rather because someone unknowingly clicked on a dodgy link in a seemingly innocuous email. It can happen to anyone. Unless, of course, they’ve been shown how to recog ..
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