Insights from the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study show that the IT players in your organization may be the key to filling the looming cybersecurity workforce gap. The survey was taken by 10,584 cyber and information security professionals in North America, and showed a projected 265,000 industry jobs will be left unfilled in 2022. Practitioners back up that data, with 68 percent indicating their organizations had too few security professionals. Filling a gap of that size with qualified professionals is daunting, but the help may already be in your organization in the information technology department. In North America, 87 percent of survey respondents indicated that cybersecurity was not their first career – and of those professionals, 70 percent were

Name: Paul-Arnaud WernertTitle: Senior Manager, Cyber Risk & SecurityEmployer: BeijafloreLocation: Paris, FranceYears in IT: 13Years in cybersecurity: 13Cybersecurity certifications: CISSP How did you decide upon a career in cybersecurity? I started to be interested in cybersecurity during my engineering studies. I led a team of students to perform an organizational and technical security audit of the network of a French public company. This was the first experience for me to understand one context, identify its threats and assess associated risks, then explain to the management these risks and the way to mitigate them. After this project, I decided to keep working on cybersecurity topics, up to now!  Why did you get your CISSP®? First I wanted to refresh and extend

From IoT to GoT, budget issues to interview busts, here are the top security headlines for the week of July 17, 2017: Who is a target for ransomware? Short answer: everyone. But education, government and healthcare organizations top the list. In math that doesn’t seem to add up, UK businesses estimate they would spend £1.1m to recover from a breach, but only 14.4% of their organisation’s operation budget is spent on infosec. We’ve mentioned the cybersecurity workforce gap a time or two, but what are entry-level job seekers doing that keeps them from getting the gig? Verizon has been breached and as many as 14 million subscribers may have had their records revealed. So maybe you should be asking, “Can

In what passes for a quiet week in the cybersecurity space, here are some of the top security headlines for the week of July 11, 2017: According to the Economic Times, cyber insurance companies haven’t been hit with claims from the summer’s cyberattacks – yet. “It would only need a combination of WannaCry’s wide reach and Petya’s destructive force to cost cyber insurers something like $2.5 billion...” Oh good – something to look forward to! In news that won’t surprise your family, 57% of IT security professionals work weekends. But those weekend warriors are up for the challenge, as 97% indicated they still found their jobs rewarding and 85% plan to stay in the field. Realism in cybersecurity? That’s Robert

By Yves Le Roux, CISSP, CISM, Co-Chair, Europe, Middle East and Africa Advisory Council (EAC) Recently our GDPR Task Force has found that despite efforts to prepare for the incoming regulation, many practitioners are finding that there is actually a lot more to do than originally anticipated, and are still in “discovery mode” about what data they hold. Data being fragmented and contained within individual business units means that knowing where data sets reside and mapping their flow is proving challenging. Businesses have just realised the mammoth task ahead of them Many businesses are still stuck in the initial stages of establishing their inventories of information, or not yet having support from the board and business units of their organisations,