Data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests a sharp rise in IT security professionals. About 56,000 individuals described themselves as information security analysts during the 12 months ended June 30, up from 45,000 for the fourth quarter of 2011. As more professionals describe their work as including more IT security responsibilities, they could be shifted over to the information security analyst category. As cybersecurity is increasingly seen as a growth field, we may be seeing more individuals self-identifying as cybersecurity types.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/how-security-workforce-expanding-p-1505