Security News > 2021 > September > Automation is not here to close the cybersecurity skills shortage gap, but it can help

In this interview with Help Net Security, Daniel Clayton, VP Global Security Services and Support at Bitdefender, talks about the cybersecurity skills shortage gap and the role of automation in improving the work of cybersecurity professionals.

If we look at investments in technology driving automation across SOCs, it's still a relatively new concept and tends to be bolted on later to solve for scale, so enterprise budget holders are less invested than security teams are.

That's just where we are as an industry and that's how most enterprises with security teams approach the automation process.

Teams need to start implementing on top of automation from the start; if you build for automation first, you can build for things that you didn't even know you could automate.

Do you think automation can be an answer to the growing shortage of cybersecurity professionals?

Automation is not the answer to the cybersecurity professionals shortage gap, but it can deal with much of the lower skilled repeatable work to enable analysts to focus on the tasks set them apart from technology-driven solutions.

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