At its heart, this sea change puts a bright spotlight on an issue that has long been overlooked: the need for skilled security professionals. For years, the industry has been skimming by with a small, undertrained security workforce, and the weaknesses have begun to show. The overwhelming nature of hacktivists’ social engineering and denial of service attacks exposes the shortage of manpower in the security department. The sophisticated nature of today’s targeted attacks exposes the need for more specialized skills, such as computer forensics and application security. Attacks on vertical markets have exposed the need for industry-specific skills, such as the support of healthcare and government systems.

In 2014, Tipton predict that the industry will begin to meet its frustrating chain of breaches and failures not only with better technology, but with more skilled, and improved, security teams. Finally tired of compromises that put their organizations in the headlines, members of the C-suite will begin to invite the security department to the table during the discussion of major business and organizational initiatives. Security will begin to be seen as a fundamental building block of IT-driven programs, and cybersecurity risks will begin to be factored into the business equation as a business imperative.

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