Here’s why closing the cybersecurity skills gap is critical to digitalization

Here’s why closing the cybersecurity skills gap is critical to digitalization

The success of any organization's digital transformation depends not only on technology, but also on human capital.

Malicious actors are increasingly targeting the weakest link in tech systems: the human beings who interact with them.

Businesses need to focus on upskilling staff in this area, raising awareness of cybersecurity, and using mentoring.



According to the engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, in the next ten years we are likely to experience as much technological change as in the past 100 years. The technologies of the fourth industrial revolution are set to become far more widespread and accessible. They will also converge in ways that create new value.

Companies and governments around the world are developing modernization strategies to use these new technologies, which include artificial intelligence, cloud-based services and internet of things. The success of any organization's digital transformation, however, is not entirely dependent on state-of-the-art technology; it depends on human capital, too. This is one aspect of technological change management that persistently gets forgotten.



Human security as an after-thought

Security is often an after-thought in technological design and implementation, despite the grave threat cyber attacks pose to business continuity, service delivery and intellectual property protection. With the rise of