A push for smarter security

With almost every business now an online business, there is high demand for IT security and data, but what skills are needed and what kind of positions are available?

Lanre Oluwatona, data protection officer at the Irish Computer Society
Lanre Oluwatona, data protection officer at the Irish Computer Society

As information and communications technology grows, becoming more and more closely aligned to core business functions in an always online and mobile world, new threats have appeared. The casual hackers of the past have been replaced by criminal gangs, while the regulatory environment has changed beyond recognition. The result? An immediate need for trained IT security specialists.

“Demand is at an all time high in ...