More than 260,000 cybersecurity professionals have joined the U.S. industry since 2020, according to new findings from the 2021 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study from (ISC)², a nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals. The study has tracked the global Cybersecurity Workforce Estimate and Cybersecurity Workforce Gap annually since 2019.
(ISC)² collected data from 4,753 cybersecurity and IT/ICT professionals, all of whom dedicate at least 25% of their time to cybersecurity tasks, working with small, medium and large organizations throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region to accurately assess the size of the current cybersecurity workforce and the challenges it faces amid an evolving threat landscape.