Intelligent CISO Issue 04 | Page 16

latest intelligence STUDY: IT PROFESSIONALS ARE A CRITICALLY UNDERUTILISED RESOURCE FOR CYBERSECURITY C M Y CM MY CY Missed opportunity According to (ISC)² research, most organisations do not have enough skilled cybersecurity professionals on staff and their readiness to discover and recover from cyberattacks has declined over the past year. Despite those findings, enterprises and government agencies fail to give IT professionals – the very individuals implementing and operationalising security strategies for most organisations – the training and responsibility they need to take on a more proactive cybersecurity role. Moreover, many IT professionals feel their security guidance is ignored by leadership. The untapped cybersecurity resource DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPERS AT: WWW.INTELLIGENTCISO.COM/ WHITEPAPERS 16 many organisations struggling with their cybersecurity workload. Close to half (43%) of IT pros said their organisations don’t provide adequate resources for IT security training and profession al development and that their ability to defend against cyberattacks has declined in the past year. As the people on the frontlines implementing and operationalising cybersecurity strategies every day, IT teams are working hard to prevent cyberattacks and lead remediation efforts when they occur. u PRESENTED BY (ISC)² research based on responses from more than 3,300 IT professionals who participated in the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study finds IT professionals are an underutilised and potentially untapped resource for Issue 04 | www.intelligentciso.com CMY K