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The $134.6 billion cybersecurity industry already went through a year of dramatic change in 2020 – and then the SolarWinds attack hit.
The sprawling supply-chain attack that hit federal agencies and thousands of businesses has accelerated key changes already underway.
The changes include a new approach of "assume breach," in which companies search for intrusions constantly. "Shift left," a trend of moving security to earlier in the development of new computer code and apps, is also speeding up.
Hiring for the 350,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs will also have to accelerate, even as companies will turn to ethical hackers to probe their security.