Many people are talking about the future-of-work, but how can that even be calculated when the primary element – workers – appears to be in short supply? There has been much focus and discussion on the work-from-home and hybrid models of work, concepts that appeal to a surprisingly large contingent of the population, but they pose significant challenges to security specialists, both in the practical terms of maintaining security and Zero Trust with a distributed workforce, but also in terms of their own work choices: is it actually possible to be a CSSP or even a CISO from home?
This past summer, we posted a white paper entitled Cloud Adoption and the Skills Shortage in which we looked specifically at why a shortage of qualified people is proving to be one of the largest impediments to cloud adoption, and we took in some feedback from Certified Cloud Security Professionals as to what the industry looks like from their inside perspective.
One of the most profound developments to have come from 2021 was The Great Resignation, a term coined by Dr. Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University, which refers primarily to the skills shortage in the cybersecurity industry. Throughout 2021, the number of people quitting their jobs in the U.S. reached a peak of 4.3 million in August, after increasing throughout the year. According to Dr. Klotz, “plenty of [these] employees don’t really want to resign. If their company would let them keep working from home or do ..
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