The Defense Readiness Index is a reliable alternative for assessing a security team’s skill level, developing a roadmap for improving cyber competencies, and reaching the optimal level of cyber security readiness.

Cybersecurity teams must be much more inclusive in their hiring processes, if they want to hire the best people and have loyal staff.

By scoping job descriptions realistically and incorporating automation and intelligence sharing to enable analyst success and growth, there’s a lot that security leaders can do to help close the skills gap in their organizations.

To sharpen and learn cybersecurity skills, security professionals need to ‘play’ in a safe, yet stimulating place that provides hands-on, interactive upskilling.