22% of respondents cite their IT security team as understaffed and that the shortage contributed to a security event at their organization in the past two years. Cybersecurity skills shortage expected to create deficit of 1.8 million infosec jobs by 2022, survey finds. Security analysis and investigations as well as application security both topped the list of IT security skills in acute shortage, followed by cloud security. Training is critical to keep team members sharp, 96% of survey participants agree, but 67% say learning new skills is difficult to achieve.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/cybersecurity-staffing-shortage-tied-to-cyberattacks-data-breaches