Cybersecurity pros use their own free time to update their skills

By 2021, it's estimated that more than four million job openings in cybersecurity will be unfilled. Cybersecurity career development platform Cybrary has conducted a skills gap survey of more than 800 security and IT professionals in order to understand growing skills gap. Among key findings are that 68 percent of respondents say they have to invest their own free time -- either before and after work (48 percent) or at weekends (20 percent) -- to improve their cyber skills. Respondents show a preference for learning through online, self-paced courses (38 percent) along with online virtual labs (17 percent). Their motivation… [Continue Reading]