What types of jobs are available to cybersecurity professionals?
According to a recently released report, there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2021.* The University of Nevada, Reno online cybersecurity program provides training for a broad range of opportunities, such as the following:
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Chief Security Officer (CSO)
- Cloud Security Architect Counterespionage Analyst
- Information Security Analysts
- Digital Forensics Analyst
- Cyber Intelligence Specialist
- IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) Security Specialist
The cybersecurity market is expected to grow from $75 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020.* The top 6 industries targeted by cyberattacks in 2018 were**:
- Business
- Health Care
- Financial Services
- Government Agencies
- Higher Education
- Utilities
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts a 31% national growth rate for information security analysts from 2019 to 2029.
Top 10 cybersecurity companies in the U.S.*
- CyberArk Software
- Cisco
- IBM
- Microsoft
- Amazon (Amazon Web Services)
- FireEye
- Lockheed Martin
- Check Point Software
- Symantec
- BAE Systems
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