One way of bridging the skills gap is to empower more non-cybersecurity professionals to do their part to secure their organisations. This is the goal of CSA’s new SG Cyber Associates programme, which will provide foundational and targeted cybersecurity training for non-cybersecurity professionals to develop cybersecurity skills relevant to their work.
The cybersecurity sector is still faced with talent crunch. The 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study by non-profit ISC2 estimates a shortage of 6,071 cybersecurity workers in Singapore.
This is worrying as cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, complex and sophisticated. Case in point: Around 8,500 phishing attempts were reported to the Singapore Cyber Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) in 2022, more than double of that in 2021. Cybersecurity vendors also reported a 13% increase in ransomware incidents worldwide in 2022, according to the Singapore Cyber Landscape 2022 report by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA).
