Nicholas Wyman is CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation and author of JOB U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need. He writes about job skills and training in the 21st-century workplace. E-mail him at nwyman@iwsiconsulting.com.
Cybersecurity is not a low-skill field. It requires general IT knowledge, specialist cybersecurity certifications, and, sometimes, knowledge about particular industry sectors such as finance and health. We need talented, skilled professionals to meet the demand. And we don’t need them in a few years – we need them now. How do we get enough people in the pipeline to meet the growing need?
