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The real cost of the IT security talent shortage: 200 per cent premium on recovery costs

by The Gurus
August 16, 2016
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Large businesses that struggle to attract sufficiently skilled IT security experts end up paying up to three times more to recover from a cybersecurity incident. This is one of the key findings of a recent report prepared by Kaspersky Lab, based on the experience of company experts and data from the 2016 Corporate IT Security Risks survey[1]. Besides the measurable budget impact, a significant share of businesses is observing a growth in wages, a general shortage in expert availability and the need for more specialists in the field.
Technical expertise and beyond
Citing complexity of IT infrastructure, compliance requirements and the overall desire to protect business assets, companies are highly motivated to grow their security intelligence. In fact, for a third of businesses, the improvement of specialist security expertise is one of the top three drivers for an additional investment in IT Security. The growing demand is not easy to fulfill due to a lack of available specialists and increasingly complex requirements. Kaspersky Lab employs hundreds of security professionals, and the company’s own recruitment managers report that on average, only one applicant out of forty, meets the strict criteria for an expert position.
However, the challenge is not limited to technical know-how. The report quotes Kaspersky Lab’s security experts, who indicate that the need for security managers is even more substantial. On top of deep technical knowledge, managers’ duties include communication with top management and overseeing the overall strategy – qualities that are especially important, and in fact, more appropriate, for large companies. The report adds a final touch to the bigger picture of talent shortage with education challenges. Success in IT security requires a certain degree of passion for this particular IT field, willingness to constantly self-educate and the ability to adapt to an ever-changing threat landscape. Higher education institutions recognise the need to revise their programs, and at the same time, acknowledge the challenge of embedding security-oriented thinking into a wide variety of IT courses.
A call to action for the security industry
Overall, 68.5 per cent of companies expect an increase in the number of full-time security experts, with 18.9 per cent expecting a significant increase in headcount. Higher education is an important part of fulfilling such a demand, but this is also a call for a change within the security industry itself. One of the solutions is to aid universities with relevant experience. Another, and very important in the long term, is to adapt R&D efforts towards the effective sharing of intelligence with corporate customers in the form of threat data feeds, security training and services. A proper combination of security solutions and intelligence is what helps corporate security teams to spend less time on regular cybersecurity incidents and focus on strategic security development and advanced threats. The report provides an example of such vision from Kaspersky Lab’s business experience.
Veniamin Levtsov, Vice President, Enterprise Business at Kaspersky Lab, comments: “In this evolving industry, the relationship with our customers already goes beyond the shipment of a technology or a product. We need to provide them with the skills and training required to identify on-going attacks. Detailed knowledge about attacks on other businesses, in the form of intelligence reports, is also necessary, along with actionable, machine-readable data about on-going threats. Solving the different challenges of threat prevention, the detection of targeted attacks, incident response and prediction requires a lot of flexibility. As a security vendor we are dedicated to increasing the quality and size of the expert security workforce around the world. Among many projects to support this initiative, we are developing IT Security Fundamentals – an educational course that will hopefully help more IT professionals to start their journey in the field of security expertise”.
The full report titled “Lack of security talent: an unexpected threat to corporate cybersafety” is available at Kaspersky Lab’s website here.
[1] Corporate IT Security Risks is the annual survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in cooperation with B2B International. In 2016 we have asked more than 4000 representatives of small, medium and large businesses from 25 countries on their views on IT Security and real incidents they had to deal with.

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