The intelligent solution: automation, the skills shortage and cyber-security & International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

: We’ve all heard of the wider IT skills shortage, but the lack of security skills in theindustry is even more critical. According to a report, ‘The Life and Times of CybersecurityProfessionals’ by the Enterprise Strategy Group and the Information Systems SecurityAssociation, IT workers that have specialist cyber-security skills are approached with a new joboffer at least once a week.2 In fact, 45% of organizations claim to be severely lacking in thisspecific area of talent. In a survey carried out a year ago of IT contractors, ‘IT Talent Acquisition;the candidate’s view’, 31% of IT contractors identified salary and day rate as the biggest attractionswhen looking a new IT job – another indication that finding professionals with cyber-security skillscould be costly.