The difficulty in keeping security skills up to date is blamed for a
significant gap between what IT managers need and the skills their IT
staffs have.As technology continuously shifts and innovates, IT professionals
face a steady pressure to keep their skills up to date. Given the even
more rapid pace at which IT security evolves, those employees who need
to incorporate security measures into aspects of their work face extra
scrutiny.
A new study finds that what is being done, however, is insufficient.
In a worldwide survey of IT managers, CompTIA (Computing Technology
Industry Association), an industry trade association, found a 16
percent gap between the number of IT managers who identified security,
firewalls and data privacy as their organization's top priority and
those that felt their IT employees were proficient in these skills.
At 19 percent, the gap was widest in five emerging IT markets—China,
India, Poland, Russian and South Africa—where, just as in the United
States, only 57 percent of IT managers said their current tech staff
were IT security proficient.
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