Cybersecurity Staffing Shortage Tied to Cyberattacks, Data Breaches

BY: Dawn Kawamoto
Short-staffed cybersecurity teams contribute to data breaches and cyberattacks levied against their organizations, a survey finds.
 Organizations with understaffed IT security teams face a double-whammy – not enough employees to bear the workload and a greater potential they will be hit with a cyberattack or data breach, a new survey found.
The Life and Times of Cyber Security Professionals report, which surveyed 343 global infosec workers, found 22% of respondents cite their IT security team as understaffed and that the shortage of people contributed to a security event at their organization in the past two years.
"The shortage is creating massive problems for businesses," says Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), which conducted the survey on behalf of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).
Indeed. A total of 70% of survey respondents say the cybersecurity skills shortage, which is expected to create a deficit of 1.8 million infosec jobs by 2022, has an impact on organization.
 
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