Train Of Thought

Scott Manson, cybersecurity lead, Middle East and Africa, Cisco, delves into the challenges of cybersecurity skills shortage in the industry.

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We are quickly moving into an era of accelerated digitisation, where technology connects everything –people, processes, data, and things. These connections will create a sustainable impact for every aspect of society. It’s predicted there will be over 500 billion connected things by 2030. In order for enterprises to embrace the opportunities this digital transformation can bring, they need people with the right technology skills. And, in this age of digitisation, the demand for skilled IT security professionals is growing every day in both the private and public sector, and much of today’s security training is dangerously out of step with current threats.

Enterprises are finding cyber attacks to have increased in both frequency and impact and they are continuing to struggle with traditional security threats such as lost devices, insider threats, malware, hacks and social engineering, while simultaneously trying to keep sophisticated attacks by non-traditional threat actors at bay.