Cybercrime is never far from the headlines. It seems as though every few months, another security threat creates costly headaches for IT professionals everywhere. And those threats don’t come cheap, at least for the victims. The average cost of a breach is $8.7 million in the US and $3.86 million globally. Add in the many remote endpoints involved in today’s hybrid-work environment, and costs swell even higher.1 The losses aren’t just in the form of missed revenue from system downtime; they also include other, hard-to-quantify effects, such as increased customer turnover and the cost of working harder to acquire new business after suffering a damaged company reputation.1 If security breaches are a problem, the obvious answer is to hire more specialists to protect the organization. However, one of the greatest barriers to effective endpoint defense is a lack of skilled IT security personnel.2 In part, that is a market problem. There’s a distinct shortfall of cybersecurity professionals, lacking just over 3 million workers globally.3 However, despite increasing attacks and 85% of organizations reporting a shortage of cybersecurity skills,2 they are actually hiring fewer cybersecurity pros.3 You may want to hire more cybersecurity staff— but you can’t find experts you can afford.
beat the cybersecurity talent shortage: how to use upskilling and analytics to bolster your team’s cybersecurity capabilities
