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(ISC)² Study: Workforce Shortfall Due to Hiring Difficulties Despite Rising Salaries, Increased Budgets and High Job Satisfaction Rate

How can there be a workforce shortage in information security if global professionals are reporting rising salaries, increased budgets, high job satisfaction rates and low changes in employment status? The results of the seventh (ISC)² Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) conducted by Frost & Sullivan for the (ISC)² Foundation with the support of Booz Allen Hamilton, Cyber 360 Solutions and NRI Secure Technologies reveal that the security of businesses is being threatened by reports of understaffed teams dealing with the complexity of multiple security technologies and the threats posed by our increasingly connected world. The analysts from Frost &... Read more →

(ISC)² Directors, Executives and Advisory Council Members Speaking at the RSA 2015 Conference

Don't miss the speaking sessions at next week's RSA Conference by members of the (ISC)² Board of Directors, Executive and Management Teams, (ISC)² Foundation, the (ISC)² Application Security Advisory Council and North America Advisory Council. Follow the discussions around some of these sessions on Twitter @ISC2 and #RSAC and Facebook /isc2fb. Also, don't forget to stop by our booth - #108 & 109. Monday, April 20 Session Title: Status of the Industry: 2015 Global Information Security Workforce Study 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m./West/Room 3022 Status of the Industry: 2015 Global Information Security Workforce Study - See more at: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us15/agenda/sessions/1803/status-of-the-industry-2015-global-information#sthash.cs86ZeGK.dpuf Status of the... Read more →

(ISC)² Global Academic Program Fills the Gap Between Schools and the Cybersecurity Skills Crisis

There is a well-documented, widely recognized shortage of information security professionals. From our own most recent Global Information Security Workforce Study[i], 56% of 12,000 respondents from around the globe believe there is a workforce shortage. In November of last year, a special Parliamentary Select Committee in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords reported that we’re facing a global shortage of “no less than two million cybersecurity professionals”2 by the year 2017. And in 2013, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report stated that the vacancy rate of the DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications was... Read more →