Security News > 2023 > September > Cybersecurity pros battle discontent amid skills shortage

The cybersecurity skills crisis continues in a multi-year freefall that has impacted 71% of organizations and left two-thirds of cybersecurity professionals stating that the job has become more difficult over the past two years-while 60% of organizations continue to deflect responsibility, according to a new report from ESG and ISSA. A career in cybersecurity is becoming more difficult in an increasingly challenging environment.

The global cybersecurity skills shortage continues unabated.

71% of organizations report that the cybersecurity skills shortage has impacted them-a dramatic increase from 57% in the last study, leading to an increased workload for the cybersecurity team, unfilled open job requisitions, and high burnout among staff, according to respondents.

Further, 95% of respondents state the cybersecurity skills shortage and its associated impacts have not improved over the past few years, and 54% say it has only gotten worse.

The top responses included increasing cybersecurity training for IT and security professionals, improving the organization's cybersecurity culture, hiring more staff, increasing the cybersecurity budget, and improving basic security hygiene and posture management.

"Cybersecurity professionals are charged with protecting the organization while being overworked, overstressed, and understaffed. There was a point in time where organizations could get away with doing 'good enough security,' but those days are gone. Relentless, AI-fueled cyberattacks and expanding attack surfaces are a sampling of new problems that are going to overwhelm and overrun underinvested cybersecurity programs. Executive management needs to recognize that their business goals are only possible if cybersecurity successfully enables their business to operate in today's threat environment day after day."

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