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STUDY: IT PROFESSIONALS
ARE A CRITICALLY UNDERUTILISED
RESOURCE FOR CYBERSECURITY
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Missed opportunity
According to (ISC)² research, most
organisations do not have enough
skilled cybersecurity professionals on
staff and their readiness to discover
and recover from cyberattacks has
declined over the past year. Despite those
findings, enterprises and government
agencies fail to give IT professionals –
the very individuals implementing and
operationalising security strategies for
most organisations – the training and
responsibility they need to take on a more
proactive cybersecurity role. Moreover,
many IT professionals feel their security
guidance is ignored by leadership.
The untapped
cybersecurity resource
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many organisations struggling with their
cybersecurity workload.
Close to half (43%) of IT pros said their
organisations don’t provide adequate
resources for IT security training and
profession al development and that their
ability to defend against cyberattacks has
declined in the past year.
As the people on the frontlines
implementing and operationalising
cybersecurity strategies every day,
IT teams are working hard to prevent
cyberattacks and lead remediation efforts
when they occur. u
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(ISC)² research based on responses
from more than 3,300 IT professionals
who participated in the 2017 Global
Information Security Workforce Study finds
IT professionals are an underutilised
and potentially untapped resource for
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