Too Many Too Few

Threats Professionals
MORE THAN

550 4 2017 THE DEMAND FOR

INFORMATION
SECURITY 32%
Cyber Security
PROFESSIONALS
IS EXPECTED TO OF SECURITY PROFESSIONALS
MILLION MILLION: GROW BY SAY IT TAKES SIX MONTHS
OR MORE TO FILL CYBER

53%
AVERAGE COST OF

Skills Gap
RECORDS WERE BREACHED IN SECURITY POSITIONS IN
A DATA BREACH BY THEIR ORGANIZATIONS.7
THE FIRST HALF OF 2016 ALONE.1 IN 2016.2 2018.6
Cyberattacks are growing,

32% 7 IN 10 48%
but the talent pool of defenders
201 DAYS
MORE
is not keeping pace. THAN
DECISION MAKERS REPORT
Although attacks are growing in THE SHORTAGE IN CYBER OF ORGANIZATIONS GET
OF ECONOMIC CRIME WAS THE MEAN TIME TO SECURITY SKILLS DOES FEWER THAN 10
AFFECTING IDENTIFY A DATA frequency and sophistication, the APPLICANTS FOR CYBER
ORGANIZATIONS IS DIRECT AND MEASURABLE
BREACH IN 2016, WHILE availability of sufficiently skilled cyber DAMAGE TO THEIR SECURITY POSITIONS.
CYBERCRIME security professionals is falling behind.
MAKING IT THE THE MEAN TIME TO ORGANIZATIONS BY MAKING 64% SAY FEWER THAN
SECOND MOST CONTAIN A DATA ISACA’s Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX) is THEM MORE DESIRABLE HALF OF THEIR CYBER
addressing this gap by creating a HACKING TARGETS.8 SECURITY APPLICANTS
REPORTED.3 BREACH WAS 70 DAYS.4 ARE QUALIFIED.9
skilled global cyber security workforce.
From the Cyber Security Fundamentals
Certificate for university students to

97% 60% &72%

CSX Practitioner—the first
OF IT DECISION MAKERS vendor-neutral, performance-based
SAY THEIR ORGANIZATION’S cyber security certification—and new
BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOW OF WOMEN
VIEWS CYBER SECURITY
security training programs, CSX is OF MEN
AS IMPORTANT.5
enabling cyber security professionals at REPORT THAT NO HIGH SCHOOL
every stage of their careers, and TEACHER OR COUNSELOR MENTIONED
helping enterprises develop strong CYBER SECURITY AS A CAREER.10
cyber work forces.

SOURCES: 1. 2016 H1 Breach Level Index, Gemalto, September 2016. 2. 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, IBM and Ponemon Institute, June 2016.
3. PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2016. 4. 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, IBM and Ponemon Institute, June 2016. 5. Hacking the Skills Shortage:
A study of the International Shortage in Cybersecurity Skills, McAfee, May 2016. 6. Demand to Fill Cybersecurity Jobs Booming, Peninsula Press, March 2015. 7. ISACA’s
2017 State of Cyber security Study. 8. Hacking the Skills Shortage: A study of the International Shortage in Cybersecurity Skills, McAfee, May 2016. 9. ISACA’s 2017 State
of Cyber security Study. 10. Securing Our Future: Closing the Cyber Talent Gap, Raytheon and NCSA, October 2016.
https://cybersecurity.isaca.org