Mayur Rele Solve The Cybersecurity Talent Gap 
                     How To Solve The 
Cybersecurity 
Talent Gap
-Mayur Rele
Cybersecurity
• The cybersecurity talent gap is no secret and the demand for skilled 
cybersecurity workers continues to increase. 
• With the development of new technology, there is an increase in 
cybercrime, and information security is high on every organization and 
business agenda.
•  The current situation in the information technology industry shows that 
there are skills shortages all over the world. 
• However, the growing rate of cyberattacks indicates that the demand 
for the cybersecurity profession is increasing at a fast rate than any 
other sector of the information technology market.
•  Cybersecurity requires longer hours than other technology sectors, 
with less room for mistakes.
2
cybersecurity talent gap
• You have to study a lot of 
software and develop your 
technicals skills which can be 
very stressful.
•  Also, cybersecurity is very 
demanding and you need to 
develop a great personality to be 
a professional. 
• Therefore, many information 
technology candidates do not 
choose it as a career. 
• This has created an unfilled 
cybersecurity job with no lasting 
solution in sight. 
3
Invest in your current 
cybersecurity 
employers
• Research has shown that many organizations and business owners do 
not invest in their cybersecurity employers. 
• We are not talking about the annual security awareness training but 
investing in improving the skills of your cybersecurity workforce. 
• Organization and business owners should give incentives and contribute 
to programs such as reimbursement for certificates, training trips, an 
increase in salary, practical tests, promotions, and many more.
• They can also invest in cultural changes, and assist their employee to 
motivate their self-development plan.
•  This will help them set their own professional goal which in turn 
benefits the organization. 
4
Integrate consolidation 
tools
• “Alert fatigue is a common 
occurrence in cybersecurity 
and it is increasing greatly 
because of the different 
numbers of technology tools 
used by every organization,” 
says Mayur Rele.
•  “Therefore, instead of adding 
many tools, security 
infrastructure should be 
consolidated and simplified. 
Also, the tools must be 
integrated into a streamlined 
platform.
• ”Mayur Rele advises.
5
The use of automation
• One of the best ways to deal with the cybersecurity talent gap is through the 
use of automation.
•  Automation helps you reduce human involvement and allows you to do 
more with lesser personnel. 
• Automating everything that can be automated at every stage of your 
workflow gives you a quantifiable result.
6
Give your employers 
cybersecurity 
education 
• Everyone in all organization has 
their own email and use it to 
send companies data from one 
department to another. 
• Phishing emails is one of the 
tools used by cybercriminals to 
take sensitive data from the 
organization. 
• Therefore, many organization 
security is harmed by limiting 
the organization’s security 
responsibility to the 
cybersecurity team.
7
8