When training and credential provider ISC2s released its latest workforce analysis recently, the report’s continued focus on a gap between the number of “needed” cybersecurity professionals and the estimate of the current workforce touched off a backlash.
Following discussions with dozens of unemployed cybersecurity professionals, field CISO Ira Winkler of CYE Security wrote an open letter to ISC2, criticizing ISC2’s continued focus on the gap as a measure of true demand. Ben Rothke, a senior information security manager at Experian, also took issue with the data, as well as the marketing that fuels get-rich-in-cybersecurity training programs.
