The continued fallacy of the information security skill shortage

Ben Rothke
11 min readJun 23, 2022
https://www.iss.nus.edu.sg/community/newsroom/news-detail/2020/06/12/a-different-pandemic-in-the-cyberspace-and-a-shortage-of-front-liners

You need to show security professionals the money

In March 2020, I wrote in The fallacy of the information security skill shortage, that the notion of a critical shortage of information security professionals was partly due to firms that don’t pay market rates. Many security jobs go unfilled not because there is no one to…

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Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.