{"id":219308,"date":"2026-03-03T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:55:07","slug":"7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4137580\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap.html\">7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4137580\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4137580\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 02:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Operationally, the cyber skills gap creates weak and fragile defenses. \u201cTools may be deployed correctly, but detections are poorly tuned, incidents are addressed superficially, and root causes remain unresolved,\u201d Patel warns. \u201cMany breaches occur not because controls were missing, but because teams lacked the expertise to act on early warning signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"7-failing-to-simplify-and-scale\">7. Failing to simplify and scale<\/h2>\n<p>Top CISOs accept two facts up front: Teams will always be somewhat understaffed and that the threat landscape is moving at lightning speed, says Aman Sirohi, CISO at data security firm Cyberhaven.<\/p>\n<p>The most effective CISOs don\u2019t try to hire their way out, Sirohi says. \u201cInstead, they narrow the gap by scaling the team through automation, simplifying security operations, improving signal-to-noise, and leveraging AI,\u201d he states. \u201cThe fastest path forward is simplifying the environment, engineering repeatable security outcomes, and using technology to turn people into force multipliers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4137580\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4137580\/7-factors-impacting-the-cyber-skills-gap.html Publish Date: 2026-03-03 02:02:00 Source Domain: www.csoonline.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4137580-0-83512300-1772521313-software_development_lifecycle_developers_programmers_coding_code_by_roman_samborskyi_shutterstock_1536573386_royalty-free_digital-only_2400x1600-100890352-orig.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-219308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-data-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219310,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308\/revisions\/219310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}