Indian Companies Facing Shortage of Cybersecurity Experts

Apr. 27, 2018

The report highlights that there are currently around 30,000cybersecurityrelated vacancies in the country, including those of cybersecurity-suite leaders who are capable of overhauling the entire security strategy of a company. Other openings include those of managers, who are capable enough to oversee cybersecurity projects, and engineers with up-to-date knowledge of the domain.

Due to the increasing demand for cybersecurity professionals, companies are willing to pay nearly twice as much as they offer to other tech professionals. Engineers with a cybersecurity background and more than three years of experience can easily land an annual pay package of Rs. 25 lakh, while software developers with five years of experience at a multinational firm would only make around Rs. 10 lakh.

Vidur Gupta, director of HR firm Spectrum Talent Management, toldQuartzthat:

“Till about a few years ago, the internal IT departments in a company were fairly limited. There was a department that used to take care of enterprise resource planning and one that took care of administration. Lately, cybersecurity has become a full division”.