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U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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That sounds huge. 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security? I hope you don't need garbage men and bakers.

> 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security?

Even better: 0.15% of the entire US population for unfilled jobs.

I'm going to assume most of these aren't permanent positions but gigs.

Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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That sounds huge. 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security? I hope you don't need garbage men and bakers.

US tech industry bis larger than people imagine. With the ongoing cyber attacks, every company > 10 employees who have a lot at stake needs to hire cyber security specialists.

If we can have 500k police and private guards, we should have 500k cyber security specialists

Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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That sounds huge. 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security? I hope you don't need garbage men and bakers.

How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?

Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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post #7

That sounds huge. 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security? I hope you don't need garbage men and bakers.

How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?

Seems like the solution being offered up in the article is more bootcamp.

> An eight-week online course could help someone land an entry-level job as a "pen tester," a network security engineer or an incident response analyst, Moore said. Those jobs pay between $60,000 to $90,000 a year, she added

Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

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That sounds huge. 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security? I hope you don't need garbage men and bakers.

How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?

While this is probably true for boot camp web devs, it is also a very real problem for recent college grads who learn about fancy algorithms in their CS degrees, but have no idea what angles of attack exist.
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