in a Connected World:
helping make our lives easier, not even thinking whether or not the information
they are inputting is being used safely.”
Sri Sridharan
Managing Director and
Educating consumers is a key mission of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity,
Chief Operating Officer
a center of excellence established by the State of Florida in 2014 and housed
for the Florida Center
at USF to share cybersecurity best practices and research throughout Florida’s
for Cybersecurity at the
university system. “Community outreach is important not only for creating better
University of South Florida
informed consumers, but also for educating the general public about the needs
that exist in this industry,” said Sridharan.
Those needs extend to providing a skilled workforce, added Sridharan. “It’s
estimated that there are more than 3 million available jobs in cybersecurity, but
not enough skilled workers for the current load, and certainly not enough filling
the pipeline.”
Consider this: In the last five years, the number of job postings for all jobs grew
by 6 percent. Postings for technology jobs grew by almost 20 percent. Postings
for cybersecurity-related jobs grew by more than 70 percent, according to a
Computerworld report.
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