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60% Indian Firms Struggle To Hire People With The Right Cybersecurity Skills: Report

60% Indian Firms Struggle To Hire People With The Right Cybersecurity Skills: Report

About  60 per cent of organisations are struggling to recruit people with the cybersecurity skills they need in India, according to Sophos report.

 

Furthermore, 94 per cent of Indian businesses believe that the biggest challenge to their security in the next 24 months will be the awareness and education of their employees and leadership. Cognizant of the current state of cybersecurity, the number of Indian organisations planning to appoint a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead their cybersecurity strategy will increase from 33 per cent today to 40 per cent in the next 24 months.

 

The study revealed that despite cyberattacks increasing, cybersecurity budgets have remained stagnant and executive teams continue to underestimate the level of damage threats can do to organisations.

 

Sunil Sharma, managing director – sales, Sophos India and SAARC, said, “The scale of attacks over the last year has highlighted the need for highly skilled resources, which increases the pressure on organisations that are already struggling to hire talent with the right cybersecurity skills.”

 

“To combat today’s sophisticated cyberattacks, organisations need next-generation cybersecurity solutions and highly skilled personnel to manage these solutions, carry out 24x7 threat hunting and detection, and response operations. Considering the pace at which attacks are increasing, this skills gap can be dangerous for the security of organisations. To address this gap, organisations need to invest in machine learning-enabled cybersecurity systems that automate certain tasks and reduce the workload of cybersecurity teams. Those organisations that don’t have in-house teams that can carry out 24x7 security operations can outsource their security to managed service providers and their threat hunting to a specialised managed threat response service”, he added.

 

 

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