FEATURE : CIO STRATEGIES that the ramifications of the skills shortage include an increased workload on existing staff , an inability to fully learn or utilise some security technologies to their full potential and the need to spend significant time training junior employees since it is difficult to hire experienced cybersecurity professionals .
When organisations do manage to hire top talent , they experience trouble with retention . Three quarters of survey respondents told ESG that they are solicited to change jobs by recruiters at least once a month . The result ? Salaries , attrition and competition for skilled applicants are soaring .
Outsourcing to a managed security services provider ( MSSP ) or a provider of managed detection and response ( MDR ) services is one of the strategies that organisations are using to close the skills gap while mitigating cybersecurity risk .
MSSPs offer 24 × 7 monitoring and management of security devices and
Matt McCormick , SVP Business and Corporate Development , ThreatQuotient www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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