cybersecurity

As we all know, the cybersecurity threat landscape is changing on a daily basis. The need for finding highly trained individuals trained in this area is quite high, but given this huge demand, there is actually a severe shortage of workers in the cybersecurity industry. 

The most common job title that is also very closely tied to the cybersecurity consultant is the information security consultant.  There are other, not as commonly used job titles which still refer to being a cybersecurity consultant:

As we approach the end of the first quarter of 2019, many cybersecurity professionals are trying to predict what new threats could emerge in the remainder of the year.  Many believe that phishing will still remain the top threat vector out there, but its growing levels of sophistication and covertness will greatly expand as the year goes on.  It’s becoming much more difficult to tell the difference between a spoofed and an authentic website.

Cybersecurity Ventures, the world’s leading researcher and publisher covering the global cyber economy, reports that cybercrime will more than triple the number of job openings over the next five years, and there will be 3.5 million cybersecurity job openings by 2021. 

Many people think they are exempt from being scammed; however, that is not the case! Scammers are becoming more and more clever in their schemes, and we all need to become more aware of these hurtful practices. No one is safe when it comes to falling victim to scams. Krebs on Security discusses how many industry professionals are getting tricked by scammers through phone calls in his blog titled “Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever.”

Brian Krebs, on his blog Krebs on Security,  shares a warning to all consumers; the FBI has warned banks of an “unlimited operation” run by cyber criminals.