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Tackling The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage With A Training Advancement Agenda By Sandra Wheatley Ransomware is big in the news today, and organizations around the world are scrambling to get ahead of it. It’s crucial that organizations not only have the right security technology in place, but they also have knowledgeable, talented cybersecurity experts running those systems. This is the main impetus behind employee cyber training, and why cyber training for individuals looking to advanc...

iStock As digital innovation continues to transform and expand networks, much of the workforce now working remotely, and technologies like 5G making networks faster and more open, opportunities for threat actors have ballooned. This has made the chronic cybersecurity skills gap an even more glaring issue for many organizations—security teams are thin, short-staffed, and becoming ever-more strained. And individual users remain largely uninformed about how to spot digital threats...

Developing the Cybersecurity Workforce With Fortinets Security Academy Program The cybersecurity skills gap has posed a challenge to organizations everywhere. The threat landscape grows more sophisticated and digital attacks continue to expand at a rapid rate. Organizations are faced with many cybersecurity challenges without enough security professionals to address them. One answer to filling the skills gap is to tap and hire underrepresented candidates, however, providing them with the educat...

iStock With the unprecedented increase of teleworkers in 2020, the need for securing remote networks and users became a top priority for organizations. IT teams with little manpower found it difficult to fill important security positions, made worse by the challenge of securely transitioning to remote work. The cybersecurity skills gap continues to pose multiple challenges for organizations dealing with an expanding attack surface and a growing number of security alerts. Organiza...