The number of IT security analysts employed in the United States has topped 100,000 for the first time. The total has increased 135 percent in nearly six years, according to an ISMG analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Gartner projects that IT security spending will grow by 7 percent in 2017. “The field is growing much more sexy,” says Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance. “There are interesting, important jobs in cybersecurity that are going begging,” he says.”]
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