Displaying items by tag: Skills Shortage

Overtime "surged" to increase in 35% of organisations across Australia last financial year, according to recruitment and workforce solutions specialists Hays.

GUEST OPINION: Skilled cybersecurity talent is in tight supply. It's challenging to recruit, hire and retain skilled professionals: trends that are expected to continue into the near future.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial intelligence has featured prominently in the news of late: the good news and the bad.

GUEST OPINION: With more than 60% of corporate data currently stored in the cloud, the attack surface for threat actors is now as dynamic as the cloud itself, and growing fast. In this modern cyber world – where new blind spots provide attackers with a greater window of opportunity – it is essential that security teams have the proper visibility to investigate and respond to potential cloud compromises.

COMPANY NEWS: Lumify Group, the leading provider of information, communications and technology (ICT) training in Australasia, has today announced the launch of Lumify Learn. Lumify Learn provides quality, self-paced, vendor-certified and nationally accredited ICT training, leveraging 30 years of experience, skills and knowledge accumulated by the wider Lumify Group as industry leaders.

COMPANY NEWS: Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, today announced two new global partnership agreements with Cisco. The agreements bring Hitachi Vantara into Cisco’s service provider and solution technology integrator (STI) partner programs, respectively, enabling Hitachi Vantara to seamlessly integrate Cisco technologies with its storage products and position the company as a leading data centre infrastructure and hybrid cloud managed services provider.

Australia’s tech sector continues to experience a severe skills shortage, with particularly strong demand for expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security, according to the latest survey from the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

Is some of the rise in employment because employers must now enlarge workforces to off-set the massive drop in productivity caused by working from home?

Executive demand in Australia has “charged to a record high”, climbing 8 per cent in February, according to the E.L.Consult Executive Demand Index.

GUEST OPINION: A recent independent survey of 1,300 CIOs from different parts of the world, including a significant representation from Australia, shows interesting points about cybersecurity perceptions. The majority of respondents agree that there is a growing need for the convergence of security and observability. The report shows that 87% of Australian CIOs and 88% of all CIOs worldwide are convinced that observability and security practices together are crucial in establishing a DevSecOps culture.

GUEST OPINION by Joanne Wong, Vice President International Marketing – APJ and EMEA at LogRhythm: In the wake of a high-profile spate of cyberattacks that struck organisations around the world during 2022, business leaders are placing very high priority on IT security as they make plans for the new year.

GUEST RESEARCH: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced the Australian findings from its inaugural State of Data Security report, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research. Among the key findings regarding the most pressing challenge Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisation's data was "insufficient talent in IT and SecOps", cited by 26% of respondents as the top security challenge.

Australian IT leaders have serious concerns about staff retention and recruitment, according to the latest survey by digital infrastructure company Equinix, with many businesses reskilling IT workers in response to the growing tech skills gap.

The chronic skills shortage currently faced by organisations throughout Australia shows no sign of abating. As a result, many are looking for new strategies to counter the trend and put themselves in a better position to grow.

GUEST OPINION: With Australian organisations continuing to embrace the concept of cloud computing, many have changed the strategy they are following to achieve their objectives.

GUEST OPINION: Of all the challenges currently facing Australian CIOs, one of the most pressing is attracting and retaining people with IT skills and experience. Unfortunately, it’s a situation that’s unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

IBM and Edith Cowan University are working together on an industry and education internship program that aims to create job opportunities for local ECU students.

GUEST OPINION: According to the Information Systems Consortium, there are approximately 2.7 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs around the world today. There are simply not enough people with the required cyber specialisms to carry out the work in this high-growth sector. Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy highlighted this issue, and the Government committed millions of dollars via the Cyber Security National Workforce Growth Program to address the skills shortage.

GUEST OPINION: For cyber criminals, the economics of a ransomware attack are overwhelmingly in their favour. Last year, according to ESG, 79% of organisations reported a ransomware attack, with Ponemon's 2021 Cost of a Data Breach report estimating that the average cost of a breach is AU$7.3 million. The threat is omnipresent and the number of victims continues to rise.

Over half (52%) of Australian business leaders believe that a sustainability skills shortage is holding back their organisation’s energy transition, according to new research by Schneider Electric.