How To Get More People Into Cybersecurity

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. There are millions of cybersecurity jobs open. Over time, that number has just been growing. What we're doing now does not seem to be working. So what's it going to take to fill all these jobs quickly? Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Our guest is Rich Gautier, former CISO for the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Brinqa

Understand your cyber assets, prioritize vulnerabilities, automate remediation, and continuously monitor cyber hygiene across the entire attack surface — infrastructure, applications and cloud — with Brinqa. See how at brinqa.com. In this episode: • There are millions of cybersecurity jobs open. What's it going to take to fill all these jobs quickly? • Are job description requirements partially to blame for holding back the industry from tapping into greater diversity of expertise? • Is it better off if you hire, train, culturally integrate, and reward that person? • Does burn out and a steep learning curve keep adding to the problem?