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Negative Unemployment: That Giant Sucking Sound In Security

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FORBES | March 21, 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Businesses everywhere are facing the fact: the security talent pool is dry. I spoke to a manager recently who had hired a security analyst after eight months of searching. Each month he had reduced the requirements and increased the salary. Needless to say, in the end, he was getting less than he wanted for a lot more money. If you are a security professional, this seems great – we have one of the few jobs that are not about to be replaced with automation, and there’s no end in sight to the skills shortage.

But if we take a wider view, this is a big economic problem. Security work is either not getting done, or is being done by people who lack the background or aptitude.

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Security’s Nightmare: Negative Unemployment

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Unemployment is bad, so negative unemployment must be good, right?  Um, no.  (I’ll steal a line from Douglas Adams: “It’s unpleasantly like being drunk” … “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” … “Well, ask a glass of water.”)  Security as an industry is short-staffed – critically so, and it’s getting worse.

This came into sharp focus with the recent suit between MasterCard and Nike.  I’ve no comment on the specifics of the case, but the general lesson is clear: security geeks are in desperately short supply.  When I think of where this industry was just a few years ago, it would have been preposterous to imagine two household name, world class companies unleashing lawyers over such a fracas.

This is why security automation is such a big deal.  Security teams everywhere are drowning in unaddressed, basic problems.  We know plenty about what we need to do, but we just can’t get it all done – there aren’t enough fingers on the keyboards.  (Anyone remember “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T”?)  We need machines to prioritize all the signal overload; there’s no other way to make headway.