A dire shortage of cybersecurity professionals and senior leaders who hop between companies for higher pay are weakening companies’ cyber defences, recruitment experts say.
“Every organisation at every level is scrambling to find the best quality cyber people that they can so that their organisations don’t end up on the front page of the newspaper,” Mr Morse said. “This creates a much more fragile system because you have less-qualified individuals who are taking on much more senior roles.”
Mr Munson said the number of vacancies in the sector had stayed consistently high over the past few years, with salaries increasing between 20 and 30 per cent compared with the year before the pandemic.“It’s very complex and there just aren’t enough people with that level of knowledge to do the jobs,” Mr Munson said
Jacqui Kernot, security director for Accenture Australia and New Zealand and a former cybersecurity executive at Telstra, said technology alone could not protect organisations from increasing threats.
Well, we know Optus has a severe lack of competent Cyber staff