CYBERSECURITY REVIEW8 JUNE - 2023IN MY OPINIONCyber Crime is getting more sophisticated, combining skills and resources to succeed in malicious activities, seizing new opportunities quicker, requiring organizations to staff their Cyber Defenders. Are you and your organization ready to face the Cyber Skills Gap, competing with a Global and competitive market? Have you identified strategies to attract professionals and grow your Team, while preserving your top talent?We live in a world with a massive, and growing, dependency on Technology, stimulated by a digitally savvy society demanding innovation, ease of access to services, resources, and data on a timely manner, resulting in a complex and interconnected digital ecosystem. Cybercriminals are, more than ever, actively taking advantage of this wider IT landscape to explore weaknesses and fragilities in organizations, benefitting from a higher probability of success to increase their potential rewards.Cybersecurity has been around for a few decades now, but only recently we have witnessed growing media coverage and concern from organizations, governments, and general population. Newspapers and television news include daily reporting on impact from cyberattacks in our lives, either directly, if we are the target, or indirectly, due to unavailability of services on which we rely or depend on.Boards are also addressing Cyber more seriously, seeing it as a top risk, being open and increasingly more literate to discuss about it and incorporate it within strategic planning. This change of mindset has been influenced by the operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory impacts arising from publicly known cyber incidents, as well as the growing concern and demand from customers, partners, employees and governments to properly manage Cybersecurity risks.Shortage of Cybersecurity professionals is a global reality, currently estimated at more than 2,72 million positions to be filled, resulting in a necessary growth of workforce by 65% percent to effectively defend organizations' critical assets, according to 2021 (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study.By Edgar Oliveira, Head of Cyber Security, Galp [GALP: ELI]CYBERSECURITY SKILLS GAP ­ CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITYEdgar Oliveira
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