Security News > 2020 > February > Cybersecurity hiring challenges and retention issues demand new talent pipelines

Cybersecurity teams continue to struggle with hiring and retention, and very little improvement has been achieved in these areas since last year, according to ISACA. Understaffed and lacking diversity.

ISACA's 2020 State of Cybersecurity survey report, unveiled at RSA Conference 2020, finds that enterprises are short-staffed, have difficulty identifying enough qualified talent and don't believe their HR teams adequately understand their hiring needs.

While slight progress is reported in increasing the number of women in cybersecurity roles and in establishing diversity programs, most cybersecurity teams still indicate they have significantly more men than women, and most report that progress is minimal.

Cybersecurity hiring and retention problems: Key findings 62% say their organization's cybersecurity team is understaffed; 57% say they currently have unfilled cybersecurity positions on their team.

Once teams achieve the difficult task of finding the right professionals, they then struggle to retain them, with 66% saying it's difficult to retain cybersecurity talent.

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