The need for cyber security skills in Australia balloons

Demand for people with the right mix of skills to keep organisations in Australia safe from cyber attack is far in excess of supply.Australia is facing a ballooning security skills shortage that, left unchecked, will leave enterprises even more vulnerable to attack.An analysis of the online recruitment site Seek found that over the 12 months to November 2015 the number of computer security roles advertised leapt 60%.Such is the demand for security skills that late last year the Commonwealth Bank and the University of New South Wales announced a $1.6m, five-year partnership to boost the number of security engineering professionals graduating in Australia, while Macquarie Telecom announced it would fund two scholarships in computer security at Western Sydney University.