A Spiceworks survey shows that the cybersecurity skills gap is unlikely to improve in the near future, especially considering a majority of organizations do not employ cybersecurity specialists, have no plans to hire the expertise, and aren’t willing to investment in the security training their IT pros need.
The survey revealed that only 29% of organizations have one working in their IT department, and the numbers weren't any better elsewhere. A mere 7% of organizations have a security expert in another department and only 7% have one on the executive team. The silver lining may be that 23% of organizations contract outside security experts to help protect their environments and to help fill this knowledge gap.