ISACA's State of Cyber Security 2017 Report

Recently ISACA released the result of a survey as their State of Cyber Security Report 2017, part 1.  You can download it at their website HERE.

Part 1 focuses on topics like "workforce challenges" and "persistent skills gap".  Like many other groups, ISACA continues to push the narrative of a skills gap, and of course their solution is to train more folks in cybersecurity, ideally with their new set of CSX training and certifications.

Is there an IT Security Skill Set Gap??

Over the last year or so, I have heard from several sources that we have a "cybersecurity skills gap".  That we have more IT security positions then we have skilled people to fill them.

Here is one example of such claims:

Now, as an experienced cybersecurity professional who has been on the job market for some time without too much success, I have a hard time accepting this.  Why do I say this?