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Industry is too small, too male, and is propped up by overseas nationals

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An estimated 3.4 million professionals are needed to fill the growing global cybersecurity workforce gap, according to security firm Fortinet’s latest report on the global security landscape.

The digital skills gap is costing Australian businesses $3.1 billion annually, but closing the current digital skills gap would take an investment of $1.5 billion, a new study by RMIT Online and Deloitte Access Economics reveals.

The University of Tasmania has partnered with security firm Fortinet by joining the Fortinet Academic Partner Program, aimed at building a diverse, skilled workforce to help close the cybersecurity skills gap.

Australians are closing the skills shortage gaps and adapting to the new digital era, according to the fourth annual Global Skills Report released by online learning platform Coursera which also shows that out of 100 countries, Australia’s global ranking has improved since last year, jumping from 40th to 39th in technology skills.

In Australia and New Zealand, 52% of organisations have experienced one to four security breaches in the last 12 months and 18% have experienced five or more breaches in that time, according to the 2022 cyber skills gap report from security firm Fortinet.

This year's OWASP Top 10 underwent some significant restructuring. A few vendors offered their thoughts.

Australian businesses have a heightened concern for security with the adoption of hybrid cloud, with 84% citing it as a barrier to moving apps to public cloud, according to a new research report.

Concerns over the growing digital skills gap in Australia’s workforce have been revealed in a new study that found that 88% of employers find it hard to get employees with the skills they need.

The nature and speed of cybercrime means the threat landscape changes quicker than educational institutions can keep up with delivery of cyber security training, according to one cyber education provider who says cyber security is now impacting every sector of the world’s economy and infrastructure.

New research has revealed a major cybersecurity skills gap amongst Australian lawyers, with 86% of legal practitioners believing the industry needs to upskill in cybersecurity measures.

Skilled migrants have been an “overwhelming net positive” for the Australian economy and particularly sought after for filling skilled IT positions like developer programmers and ICT business analysts, according to a new report.

The World Economic Forum, currently being held in Davos, Switzerland, has launched an IT Industry Skills Initiative designed to meet the global skills gap challenge and address job displacement arising from automation and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The Australian Computer Society says the budget falls short in providing sufficient funds to address the ICT skills gap and wants the federal government to allocate more funding to overcome the problem.

Two scholarships at Western Sydney University in 2016 will be sponsored by Macquarie Telecom ‘as its contribution to heading off a looming skills crisis in the cyber security industry.’

Usually, any talk of a 'skills gap' generally concerns workers at the coalface. But Capgemini has identified a problem among senior managers.