The number of information security analysts employed in the United States has topped 100,000 for the first time. That’s up nearly 20 percent from 86,800 a year ago. Gartner projects that IT security spending will grow by 7 percent in 2017. The field has a dearth of qualified practitioners, suggesting the employment numbers should be higher. The unemployment rate in the third quarter among IT security analysts fell to 5.3 percent from 6 percent in the previous quarter, according to ISMG.”]
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