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Joe Nocera & Vikas Agarwal, partners at PwC The 2021 PwC Global Digital Trust Insights survey shows 96% of businesses will adjust their cybersecurity strategy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joe Nocera and Vikas Agarwal of PwC offer an analysis.
“I can t remember any survey we ve ever done where you had 96% of the respondents agreeing . that they were planning to adjust their strategy,” Nocera says.
Half of all organizations surveyed for the report are now more likely to consider cybersecurity in every business decision, and 44% are implementing new processes for cybersecurity budgeting.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Nocera and Agarwal discuss:
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There s an estimated 500,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions in the United States today, including 166,000 jobs for information security analysts the profession’s most common job title.
And those figures are likely to increase.
According to PwC’s
Global Digital Trust Insights 2021, 51% of responding executives said they plan to add full-time security personnel in the upcoming year, with 22% increasing their staffing by 5% or more.
Enterprise teams continue to need security analysts and security engineers, and penetration testers all roles that are staples in many security departments. Now, though, organizations are looking to expand their security ranks with other positions, carve out new roles, and add new titles.
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