Close the InfoSec Skills Gap: Develop a Technical Skills Sourcing Plan
Systematically source the skills your organization needs.
- The demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals far exceeds supply. As a result, organizations are struggling to protect their data against the evolving threat landscape.
- It is a constant challenge to know what skills will be needed in the future, and when and how to acquire them.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Plan for the inevitable. All industries are expected to be affected by the talent gap in the coming years. Plan ahead to address your organization’s future needs.
- Base skills acquisition decisions on the five key factors to define skill needs. Create an impact scale for the five key factors (data criticality, durability, availability, urgency, and frequency) that reflects your organizational strategy, initiatives, and pressures.
- A skills gap will always exist to some degree. The threat landscape is constantly changing, and your workforce’s skill sets must evolve as well.
Impact and Result
- Organizations must align their security initiatives to talent requirements such that business objectives are achieved and the business is cyber ready.
- Identify if there are skill gaps in your current workforce.
- Decide how you’ll acquire needed skills based on characteristics of need for each skill.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
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Guided Implementation 1: Identify skill needs for target state
- Call 1: Define security roadmap skill needs.
- Call 2: Prioritize and associate roles with the initiative skill gaps.
Guided Implementation 2: Identify technical skill gaps
- Call 1: Align role requirements with future initiative skill needs.
Guided Implementation 3: Develop a skills sourcing plan for future work roles
- Call 1: Understand and define the factors that influence the skills sourcing plan, and discuss options for sourcing skills.
- Call 2: Score key factors against needed skill, and determine how to source a skill.
Contributors
- Amanda Bluett, Head of Cyber Defence and Assurance, CBRE
- Eldon Sprickerhoff, Chief Innovation Officer, eSentire, Inc.
- Anja Adam, Manager of Information Security – IT Risk & Compliance, De Lage Landen International B.V.
- Four anonymous contributors
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