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- 网络安全 professionals are key to supporting today's global economy, 但该行业正在努力填补网络技能缺口.
- Closing this skills gap requires collaboration across public and private sectors through thoughtful investment in cultivating relevant talent.
- Long-term solutions are also needed to bridge the cyber talent gap, 比如通过早期职业项目培养候选人的技能.
随着数字经济持续快速增长, cybersecurity professionals are critical to supporting today’s global economy. However, the industry is struggling to fill the large void in cybersecurity skills.
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Our tech-enabled world requires skilled individuals who can assess, 构建, 安装, 监控和维护支撑它们的系统. Staffing shortages are brought on by varying factors and, according to a poll conducted by 麻省理工科技评论见解 全球信息技术(IT)的领导者, 64% of respondents said that candidates lack necessary skills or experience.
Closing the cyber skills gap requires collaboration across public and private sectors through thoughtful investment in cultivating cybersecurity talent. 随着科技越来越融入日常生活, cybersecurity has taken on a new-found importance to preventing theft of personal information to catastrophic infrastructure failures.
在解决网络技能差距方面, organizations can improve cybersecurity 帖子ure and resilience through upskilling and reskilling their workforce, recruiting and training a diverse workforce and creating a holistic cybersecurity ecosystem.
为什么缺乏网络技能人才是一个问题
Organizations have become increasingly dependent on 技术 and as those technologies become more complex, securing systems and networks is more difficult than ever as more security technologies and processes are needed to work with each other.
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This dependence on 技术 means that organizations are competing with one another to acquire what scarce cyber talent is available, which causes cybersecurity salaries to escalate and makes it difficult for organizations to hire and retain many cybersecurity workers.
As 技术 evolves at a rapid pace with cybersecurity built-in rather than bolt in, it puts a heavy emphasis on the lack of cybersecurity talent as cyber threats grow at a commensurate rate.
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI in particular could pose a threat, 英国政府最近的一份报告强调了这一点 人工智能可能会增加网络攻击的风险 到2025年侵蚀人们对在线内容的信任.
A lack of skilled cybersecurity professionals weakens organizations risk assessment and strategic planning, giving innovative cyberattacks and new malware a weaker and wider attack surface.
根据… 调查 光辉国际(Korn Ferry)进行的一项调查显示，企业可能会损失8美元.5 trillion in annual revenue without the talented workforce required, and 85 million jobs may go unfilled by 2030 due to a lack of skilled workers.
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解决网络安全行业的技能差距
Among the most important aspects to 构建ing an effective talent pool for cybersecurity is ensuring that there is a defined learning path and a defined career path for existing and future employees to fill the voids in niche security talent pools.
Building skills in-house through training and education programs can help organizations establish and retain an effective and loyal cybersecurity talent pool. 通过在内部培养网络技能, current employees can get up to speed and organizations can widen the pool of available cyber talent.
此外, 构建ing out cyber skills internally can also decrease the chances of burnout for cybersecurity employees already working for your organization.
根据 世界经济论坛, 科学缺乏多样性, 技术, 工程和数学领域, 尤其是网络安全, is one of the leading contributing factors to the cyber skills gap.
Organizations should consider expanding their scope when seeking candidates outside of their existing talent pool. This can help 构建 a diverse cybersecurity team with a diverse set of skills to increase an organization’s cybersecurity 帖子ure.
除了, by focusing on the tasks at hand and the skills needed rather than the qualifications, organizations can find talented candidates who have skills that can be broadly applied to different fields of expertise, 比如解决问题, 时间管理和创新思维.
职业技能项目的优势
Long-term solutions are necessary to bridge the IT talent gap and cultivate candidates' skills through 青年项目, which can increase diversity in the talent pool as well as improve retention.
例如, India-based multinational IT services and consulting company HCLTech has started to invest in young students through 青年项目 提供在职培训, as well as offering financial support towards 帖子-secondary education.
Schemes such as these train candidates to become valuable HCLTech contributors and focus on improving diversity and 构建ing a highly skilled workforce for the future.
根据… 麻省理工学院的调查, 32% of organizations that participated in the 调查 have an apprenticeship scheme, while 19% plan on implementing such a program in the next two years.
毕竟, a better trained and younger workforce can greatly benefit the industry in the long term, while also boosting the cybersecurity 帖子ure of the organizations for which they work.
本文最初发表于 世界经济论坛 2023年11月13日.