Cybersecurity Pros Receive Salary Bump, Hiring to Increase

Cybersecurity Pros Receive Salary Bump, Hiring to Increase

The hiring managers surveyed in the U.S. said that they're looking

for candidates with specific skills in these top five categories:

operations security;

access control systems and methodology;

information risk management;

applications and system development security;

and security architecture and models.

More than half of the professionals surveyed in

the U.S. received salary increases in 2009...

(#Cybersecurity Jobs)

SOURCE: clearancejobs.com

Outlook Bright for Federal IT {Security} Jobs

Wired Workplace: Outlook Bright for Federal IT Jobs (Repost)

Report says the need for technology {cybersecurity} professionals within the federal government remains strong.

A new survey finds that even in the tough economy, the job outlook for information security professionals within the federal government remains strong… (ISC)2's 2010 Career Impact Survey, which interviewed nearly 3,000 information security professionals worldwide, including 668 respondents in the U.S. government, found that nearly 61 percent of federal respondents who identified themselves as having hiring abilities said they were looking to hire permanent and/or contract employees in 2010. Of those hiring, 51 percent said they plan to hire three or more information security professionals this year. Despite these hiring projections, however, nearly 54 percent of hiring managers said their biggest hiring challenge was finding candidates with the right skills...

 

See full column at GovExec here: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0310/030810ww.htm