Five Ways to Make Sure You Hire the Right Cybersecurity Team Member
If you’re running an IT company, you already know that there is a huge gap between existing cybersecurity professionals and the current demand. This disparity is affecting almost all types of organizations, ranging from undetected breaches, prolonged response times and malware that severely affects operations, that employees cannot seamlessly do their jobs. It is estimated that the demand for cybersecurity jobs is likely to inch close to 3.5 million by 2021. As of 2020, organizations are increasingly becoming concerned with cybersecurity risks and how the security failures may jeopardize industry operations and cause a financial fallout. In a poll carried out by ISACA in 2019 that involved more than 1550 security professionals, 58% of them disclosed that their organizations have unoccupied cybersecurity roles and 32% said it takes almost half a year to fill those vacant positions. All these metrics point to a common question: what should companies do to hire and retain the best talent