{"id":129108,"date":"2021-10-17T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/what-role-can-artificial-intelligence-play-in-fixing-the-security-skills-shortage"},"modified":"2021-10-17T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:43:46","slug":"what-role-can-artificial-intelligence-play-in-fixing-the-security-skills-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/what-role-can-artificial-intelligence-play-in-fixing-the-security-skills-shortage","title":{"rendered":"What Role Can Artificial Intelligence Play in Fixing the Security Skills Shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-role-can-artificial-intelligence-play-in-fixing-the-security-skills-shortage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demand for highly desirable digital skills is hitting new heights. A recent Learning and Work Institute <a data-feathr-click-track=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/learningandwork.org.uk\/resources\/research-and-reports\/disconnected-exploring-the-digital-skills-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> noted that one in four (27%) employers now need the majority of their workers to have in-depth specialist knowledge in one or more technology areas. And 60% of those surveyed expect their reliance on advanced digital skills to increase over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The skills gap is particularly prevalent in the security tech sector. A <a data-feathr-click-track=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iamcybersafe.org\/MeetTheMillennials\" target=\"_blank\">global study<\/a> from the Center for Cyber Safety and Education predicted a terrifying shortage of 1.8 million security workers by 2022. This is made worse by the number of young people taking IT-related GCSEs in the UK, falling by 40% since 2015 (according to Learning and Work Institute data).<\/p>\n<p>This scarcity of qualified professionals has inflated salaries, making it hard for firms that cannot afford to offer large paychecks and grand benefit packages to secure top talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for highly desirable digital skills is hitting new heights. A recent Learning and Work Institute report noted that one in four (27%) employers now need the majority of their workers to have in-depth specialist knowledge in one or more technology areas. And 60% of those surveyed expect their reliance on advanced digital skills to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}