The global cybersecurity workforce will have more than 1.5 million unfilled positions by 2020. IBM is addressing the talent shortage is by creating new collar jobs, particularly in cybersecurity. IBM: 20% of our U.S. hiring in cybersecurity since 2015 has consisted of new collar professionals. Cybersecurity is a complex career field with extraordinarily challenging problems, but with a diverse pool of experiences and ideas, we stand a much greater chance of successfully defending our assets. The average company handles a bombardment of 200,000 security events per day.”]
Source: https://hbr.org/2017/05/cybersecurity-has-a-serious-talent-shortage-heres-how-to-fix-it