CISO's guide to hiring for the right cybersecurity skills | TechTarget
The cybersecurity talent crisis has moved from a simple numbers problem to a fundamental mismatch between what organizations need and what the workforce can deliver.
While 87% of organizations plan to expand their security teams this year, according to Fortinet Training Institute's "2026 Cybersecurity Skills Gap" report, the CyberSeek online data tool found that there are only enough available cybersecurity workers in the U.S. to meet 74% of employer demand.
As problematic as that data is, it doesn't encapsulate the full extent of the workforce challenge. Cybersecurity leaders are finding not only a shortfall in the number of cybersecurity professionals, but also a significant misalignment between the available skills in the market and those needed in enterprise cybersecurity departments.
Researchers from SANS Institute and GIAC called it "a widening skills gap that organizations struggle to close, even as they increasingly recognize that having the right abilities matters more than...
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