for more on this josh Lorne Greene VP of growth
for torque joins us now. Thank you so much
for being here. Can you break down why we're
seeing such a massive staffing shortage in this area of
the industry. Thanks for having me asia. I
think there are two reasons around the staffing shortage and
one is the growing need. So every single day
we innovate and with all that new technological innovation that
opens up new ways for Attackers to hack to breach
and to access data they shouldn't have access to.
And so every day the challenge for cybersecurity teams gets
larger and larger and larger. There's no day where
cybersecurity gets easier or what we have to defend gets
smaller. The other reason is cyber security is a
really difficult job. We all hear about the hacks
that succeed. We don't hear about the companies that
ward off Attackers every single day day in and day
out and that's a huge burden. Over 70% of
cybersecurity professionals say their unhealthily stressed and it's stressed because
we only talk about them when they failed and that
makes the job harder day in and day out.
And so it's not just a how do we keep
up with the rising challenge? It's how do we
actually retain folks who are in these positions today?
Really interesting, josh. I mean we don't really
, to your point talk about the successes that are
to be had in this industry. So what do
you think could be done to boost interest in professionals
relating to cybersecurity right now. Yeah, well,
you know, I think, I think there are
actually two things and one of it is actually championing
those successes and companies being more public about the great
work those teams do every single day, both big
and small to keep their employees their data and their
customers safe. We need to, as an industry
, start talking about that and start sharing those successes
so that cybersecurity is profession that's recognized and champion day
in and day out and not just in the spotlight
when something goes wrong. The second thing, and
I think this is just as important is Cybersecurity ultimately
is a job about identifying prioritizing and preventing risks and
threats. But along the way, we've added a
lot of technical overhead to those jobs, around 54%
of companies say that when they interview candidates, those
people don't have enough IT skills or engineering skills.
Well, I thi and engineering aren't cybersecurity and so
we're not just asking cyber professionals to understand risk and
prevent risk. We're asking them to also have technical
skills that you would expect from a software engineer or
an IT engineer. We need to find ways to
make cybersecurity a less technical profession so that it can
appeal to a wider range of candidates got it.
And we mentioned this is all coming as there are
calls to beef up cybersecurity for different companies, what
are your biggest concerns right now when we talk about
the vulnerability, not only of these companies, but
I also think of local government organizations, even education
and schools during this time when threats are potentially abound
. Yeah. You know, it's, I think
we're in a very strong place in the United States
specifically because we have a great public private partnership around
cybersecurity. You know, the government does a lot
of work with private companies, local governments to define
standards, define best practices and then work with not
just folks have to implement those, but the vendors
who create cybersecurity tools um, to help all of
our collective companies protect themselves better. But at the
same time, one of the things that really concerns
me is cybersecurity in a lot of cases is viewed
as a burden on the business. It's viewed as
something that slows down innovation or stops users from doing
the things they want to do day in and day
out and when there's friction between what someone who is
just showing up for work, trying to do their
job needs to get done every day and the things
that keep them safe, that creates a gap that
can be exploited. And so the thing that worries
me isn't particular hacks or particular techniques, it's more
about how do we reduce the friction so that cybersecurity
is more seamlessly integrated into the things that all of
us do day to day to get our jobs done
Right and Josh, you know, 15 seconds left
here, what is torque doing right now in terms
of cybersecurity? Yeah. So you know, torque
I mentioned these things about making a cybersecurity, less
technical torques and no code platform that helps cybersecurity professionals
automate and perform all the things they need to do
without having that technical skill set that I. T
. Background so they can deliver better security to the
organization's faster, josh thorn, grand VP of growth
for torque. It's so good to have you on
the show. Thank you so much for your perspective --> .