Cybersecurity firms will need to find about 10 per cent more trained professionals each year for the foreseeable future. Read more
But more and more, it’s offering 24/7 managed security, providing firms around the world constant protection, with 250 employees scattered between eight offices in Canada, four in the United States and two in Europe.“There was a really good excuse initially to say, ‘I’m not a target’ because the first attacks were about extracting information and selling it to someone else,” Johnston said. “But then when ransomware came about, that flipped the whole business model on its head.
“But at the same time, you can’t build a senior-tenure pedigree person with a high school diploma and six months’ training. So you have to pick your battles and where we build anything, we build our junior resources, those entry-level positions, and we’ve seen some good success with that.” The dean of the University of New Brunswick’s computer science faculty and founding director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity is disheartened that Canadian schools are not stressing the STEM subjects more — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the kind of basic training that would help create an army of cybersecurity recruits.
He said the demands are such that cybersecurity firms will need to find about 10 per cent more trained professionals each year for the foreseeable future.
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