Cybersecurity workers shortage in USA

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In the digital age, cyber attack is common. This could even be where war should just happen instead of sending nukes. Cybersecurity is as much important as protecting lives. US had been attacked many times the most recent was the oil pipeline.

It could be avoided if they encourage geeks to be geeks not getting bullied in school instead. An ECE engineering can still be honed to become penetration expert if given the motivation.

Teens today are more inclined to become tiktoker influencer than having a real career.  Parents today doesnt have high expectation for thier kids anymore.

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[justdimin]

I love Australia so much but I can't live with spiders
My friend is a cybersecurity specialist in Australia and she has told me that in IT sectors, sometimes they don't care much about your educational background and what matters the most is your working experience and I would say that it's true at some point. I have often seen people finishing MBA working as a fullstack developers, I have even seen one as a DevOps engineer in one bank after finishing an intense Bootcamp and learning course.

Just saw in one LinkedIn job offer section that the requirements for cybersecurity analyst was - A qualification or equivalent work experience in Information Technology.

I have worked in many tech companies and I can tell you that knowing how to code is actually a minus in many of them, now I know it sounds very very weird, why would they want to hire a bad coder over a good coder if they are a tech company right? Well, it is simply because if you are a great coder, then you will leave soon, because it all depends on one of your projects that you develop in your free time to get accepted, and as soon as it is accepted then you will leave and make money from that.

Everyone is making mobile apps, websites, projects and what not. However, if you are a smart person who can barely code, they can teach you that and let you learn only the amount you need to and that’s about it, there is nothing else they will teach you, only the part you need to know for that position, which will keep you there longer. So, it is not a shock to hire non-coders to a coding position if they know just a tiny bit.

[DaveF]

The other issue is that a lot of the smaller businesses that want cybersecurity pay poorly. So there is a lot of movement between jobs. Some people who can't find a better job in the field leave, and as the need grows it becomes harder to find them. I have seen too many places that want a good but not great cybersecurity person but are only willing to pay $65,000 in a major city. Sorry, not going to happen.

So the jobs go unfilled. Then someone else sees that Business "X" is looking for someone and only paying $65,000 so they advertise their position at the same rate...and wonder why they can't find someone.

Not you can't afford to live on wages, but far enough below where they should be that it's not worth it for a lot of people to even bother looking at the position.

-Dave

[alpamar99]

My friend is a cybersecurity specialist in Australia and she has told me that in IT sectors, sometimes they don't care much about your educational background and what matters the most is your working experience and I would say that it's true at some point. I have often seen people finishing MBA working as a fullstack developers, I have even seen one as a DevOps engineer in one bank after finishing an intense Bootcamp and learning course.

Just saw in one LinkedIn job offer section that the requirements for cybersecurity analyst was - A qualification or equivalent work experience in Information Technology.

With this, it has been answered in Australia when we want a job that must be prepared is expertise because I think this is very good because education only teaches theory, apart from that I think skills and competencies must still be done independently. and I think this is quite good considering for now especially in my country to get a degree in education can be bought with money without the need for us to study and the results even with an MBA even though the skills and competencies are even zero and nothing at all. but with different skills. because there are some people who have high skills in doing something in the IT field they are not too concerned with degrees but this is what attracts them