"Closing the Cyber Skills Gap Will Take New Technologies in Addition to New Talent"

Marcus Fowler, the director of strategic threat at the cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Darktrace, discusses the need for new technologies and new talent to close the cybersecurity skills gap. Although the first decrease has been recorded for the cybersecurity workforce gap, the scale and complexity of cybersecurity professionals' workloads and tasks have increased together with the sophistication of cyberattacks. For security teams across industries, the most critical gap isn't a specific skill. Rather, it is the gap between the growing number of tasks to be performed by security teams and the skilled personnel needed to carry them out. Even if more individuals enter the cybersecurity field, there are several factors that will continue to make the cybersecurity community play catch-up. The constant advancement of external attack methods like automated attacks will continue to present challenges for the cybersecurity community. In addition, security teams have to deal with the accelerated transformation of workforce practices and technological infrastructure stemming from the widespread shift toward remote working as well as the increased adoption of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and cloud computing platforms. With these challenges, humans alone cannot solve the cybersecurity resources gap. Instead of just hiring more humans to solve the problem, Fowler suggests the implementation of new security tools that can help human cybersecurity professionals work smarter. We need to equip professionals with AI and Machine Learning (ML)-based autonomous technologies that can help in security incident investigation, response, mitigation, and more. This article continues to discuss the cybersecurity resources and skills gap and the need for new talent and breakthrough technologies to close it.

NextGov reports "Closing the Cyber Skills Gap Will Take New Technologies in Addition to New Talent"