Finding qualified cybersecurity personnel is never easy. Recruitment has become an even bigger challenge in the last two years as workforce shortages intensified and corporate networks expanded into employees’ homes.
Worldwide, 60% of organizations say they are struggling to recruit cybersecurity talent, while 52% struggle to retain qualified people, according to a new report by Fortinet. The report is based on a survey of 1,223 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers across the globe.
The struggle has a cost: 67% of respondents say the cybersecurity talent shortage creates additional risks for their organizations. Already, 80% of organizations have suffered at least one cybersecurity breach attributable to “a lack of cybersecurity skills and/or awareness.”
When it comes to staffing cybersecurity teams, organizations have many needs. Among the most sought-after roles are cloud security specialists, security operations analysts, security administrators, security architects, and security awareness and training administrators.
The hardest roles to fill, according to the report, include cloud data center and application security positions; security operations related to advanced threat protection, SOC platforms and endpoint security; network security; and risk management.
All of these challenges come at a time when cybersecurity is needed more than ever as a result of the sharp increase in work-from home environments during the COVID-29 pandemic. “The sudden expansion of the corporate network, where millions of employees were logging in from their unsecured home offices, led to significant spikes in malicious cyber activity,” the report says.
Tempering Expectations
Fortinet’s findings confirm (ISC)²’s own research regarding the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals. ..
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