What Is the Cybersecurity Skills Gap?
The cybersecurity skills gap refers to the growing disparity between the demand for high-skilled cybersecurity talent and the limited supply of suitable candidates. As a result, businesses struggle to find high-skilled cybersecurity talent, and when they do, those employees are often overworked and under-supported, making it challenging to keep them. Even when companies manage to retain their cybersecurity experts, they find upskilling to meet new technologies costly and time-consuming, especially with the accelerated pace of change.
Businesses today face a perfect storm of AI-driven technological change, rising global geopolitical tensions and ever-evolving regulations, notes CyberSeek partner Will Markow, vice president of applied research at Lightcast. “Taken together, skill requirements are shifting faster than many practitioners can keep up, which is causing the cybersecurity talent gap to widen once again,” he says.
The fallout of the continuing cybersecurity skills gap on businesses is limited technological growth, delayed projects, increased hiring and retention costs and greater cybersecurity risks.
Outsource Cybersecurity Talent With SECaaS
A smart way to address the cybersecurity skills shortage is to outsource cybersecurity to an MSP like Cox Business. Cox Business, in partnership with Mimecast, offers Security as a Service (SECaaS), a managed cloud-based security solution that delivers:
- Advanced email security to protect against the latest phishing and targeted impersonation attacks
- Cloud-based web protection at the DNS level to combat malware and malicious web-behavior
- Employee awareness training to reduce security risks caused by human error
- Data security through data encryption, identity and access management (IAM), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), data loss prevention (DLP) and secure data transmission while maintaining stringent compliance requirements
- Comprehensive protection delivered by our tools, such as Security Information Event Management (SIEM), intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) and incident response
- Threat Intelligence tailored to your specific IT environment, providing insights into how you’ve been targeted, which known and suspected cyberthreats have been blocked and why
- Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Exchange integration with built-in security features
Cox Business SECaaS Fills the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Finding, hiring, upskilling and retaining IT talent is expensive and challenging. Cox Business SECaaS offers a smart alternative that’s easy to deploy, cost-effective, feature-rich and supported by a host of technology experts and engineers.
Plus, outsourcing cybersecurity provides additional benefits, including unburdened IT teams, easy access to cutting-edge technologies, vast technological expertise, predictable pricing and flexible scalability. Fill the gaps and achieve better cybersecurity outcomes with Cox Business SECaaS.
