{"id":48950,"date":"2022-10-20T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cloud-migration-and-the-cyber-skills-shortage\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:51:08","slug":"cloud-migration-and-the-cyber-skills-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cloud-migration-and-the-cyber-skills-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud migration and the cyber skills shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sponsored Post<\/span> Shifting workloads and applications to the cloud is on every forward-thinking CIO’s wish list. It is also their worst nightmare. If they get it right, they’ve helped to transform and modernize their organization’s operations and everyone’s happy. If they get it wrong, it’s a different story, made much worse if a seriously expensive data breach is involved.<\/p>\n

The cloud first popped up on the IT agenda over a decade ago, yet fears around regulatory compliance, governance and cybersecurity still linger. CIOs continue to worry that moving highly sensitive business information onto private or public cloud platforms will expose their organizations to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. If things go awry they’ve put the whole organization on the chopping block. No pressure then.<\/p>\n

So if protecting cloud-based infrastructure, applications and data is a matter of existential survival, the first thing you need is people that know what they’re talking about. Which is a problem, because professionals with cloud security skills have never been so hard to find.<\/p>\n