Скачать или смотреть Diversity and its Importance in the Cyber Mission (Balance)

There are massive challenges in talent across every industry, cyber security being just one. It’s vital that the industry further diversifies and encourages a broad range of talent at all levels. Despite multiple initiatives to address the cyber security skills gap in the last decade, it remains a major problem for organisations.

The gap has been widened by cost-cutting measures during COVID-19, with many freezing recruitment in cyber, making security personnel redundant or furloughing people responsible for cyber resilience programs in the last 12 months. However, organisations that cut their people budgets reported an increase in every type of cyber-attack in 2020, indicating that your people have a direct impact on the resilience of your organisation.

We explore the technical skills that needed to enhance cyber security, the importance of creating a culture of resilience and how cyber skills can be a business enabler. We also share practical actions to build your resilience quickly and effectively, focusing on recruitment, training and diversity.
According to research from the UK government, 48% of businesses in the UK have a basic skills gap, 30% of businesses in the UK have an advanced skills gap, and 27% of businesses in the UK have a gap with regards to incident response.

Outside of the UK, 80% of German businesses surveyed in 2020 said they had a skills gap, and 15% said they would have cyber roles, which would go unfulfilled. As well as this, (ISC)2 estimated 561,000 cyber security jobs in Europe would go unfilled, and in the USA there is currently a shortfall of 3.12 million cyber security professionals.
Digital systems are a part of our critical national infrastructure and keeping them secure and resilient is more vital than ever. Improving diversity and inclusion will be crucial to the cyber security industry’s ability to address its well-documented skills gap.

Speakers:
Inge Bryan, Managing Director, NCC Group
Sanjay Patel, Service Delivery Manager, NCC Group
Lisa Wood, Operations Manager, NCC Group
Helen-Rose Whitehead, Head of Sales Enablement, NCC Group
Sue Lal, Business Development Manager, NCC Group
Ade Clewlow, Senior Advisor, NCC Group