Though the cybersecurity “skills gap” should be an issue of the past, it remains a problem companies across industries still struggle to solve. Even with the cybersecurity workforce gap seeing its first decrease on record, cybersecurity professionals’ workloads and tasks have only scaled up and increased in complexity amidst a rise in sophisticated, fast-moving attacks. The actual most critical gap for security teams across industries isn’t a specific skill: it is the gap between the growing number of cybersecurity tasks and the personnel and expertise needed to complete them.
Even as more individuals enter the field, a number of factors will continue to leave the cybersecurity community playing a constant game of catch up. Without solving the work-to-worker gap, trying to solve the skills gap by hiring en masse will only make a small dent in a larger, continuous problem.
These challenges include evolutions in external attack methods—such as the rise of automated attacks and advanced threat tactics. Security teams are also dealing with accelerated transformation in workforce practices and technological infrastructure, with the widespread shift toward remote working and the adoption of software-as-a-service and cloud platforms.
With these compounded challenges, the cybersecurity resources gap is no longer a problem we can solve with humans alone. Rather than work harder, and throw more humans at the problem, we need to empower them to work smarter.
To work smarter, we need to rethink the intelligence around the security tools with which we equip our professionals, and the roles new technologies can play in augmenting and expediting cybersecurity tasks. Cybersecurity professionals—no matter how skilled—are often using legacy tools that spit out a constant stream of alerts. As a result, many spend ..
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