U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
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#3The salary they mentioned in the article is too low when the downside is millions in payout
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#4I've reading about this "security professionals shortage" for quite some years, yet the reality is that there is no such shortage.
And I think this is even expandable now to any IT field. People keep saying about shortage, but what I do see is exhausting hiring process most people just don't want to deal with.
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#5The salary they mentioned in the article is too low when the downside is millions in payout
That's just an entry level salary
Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
#6How many of those job postings list a CISSP or 5 years for an entry-level job that pays $70k? This is stuff I see often.
I have extensive experience in cloud security environments, have done IR, DR/BCP planning, passed SOC II audits, and have security cert(s). But I'd have a hard time finding a security engineering job that pays similarly to what I get paid currently as a support engineer for AWS's security services. And that's largely because most security jobs I see are asking for unicorns willing to get paid substantially less than other IT disciplines.
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#7Meta on the comments: While it's true that the salaries are unreasonably low, it doesn't mean that there are 500k Americans capable of doing cybersecurity work just waiting for the right paycheck.
There can be _both_ a worker shortage and unreasonable salary expectations. A labor market will always have slack on both sides, but even at the extreme, there could be 10 cybersecurity experts, and you'd have people saying "Oh, you can find workers, you just have to be willing to pay $100mm/yr."
Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
#8The salary they mentioned in the article is too low when the downside is millions in payout
That's just an entry level salary
Most places where I've worked only had 1-2 security people that weren't entry level. The majority of people doing cybersecurity work are just going to be looking at automated alerts and automated scan reports, then they pass things up to the senior person to make sure it gets investigated and fixed.
Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
#9The salary they mentioned in the article is too low when the downside is millions in payout
That's just an entry level salary
I imagine lot of these would be highly laborious analytical-type roles (staring at a dashboard all day) which don't lead to the high paying and glamorized hacker/pentester roles.
Re: U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
#10Meta on the comments: While it's true that the salaries are unreasonably low, it doesn't mean that there are 500k Americans capable of doing cybersecurity work just waiting for the right paycheck. There can be _both_ a worker shortage and unreasonable salary expectations. A labor market will always have slack on both sides, but even at the extreme, there could be 10 cybersecurity experts, and you'd have people saying…
I wonder if it is like the rural doctor/nurse/cop shortages though. Those places don't want to pay, so don't care if the jobs are actually filled.
How many of the 465,000 jobs do companies actually care get filled? Or do they just have them open just in case someone cheap walks through the door?