Important Takeaways:

• Amid Heightened Risk of Cyber Attack, US Scrambles to Fill Nearly 600,000 Open Cyber Security Jobs
• Cyber protection is no longer optional. The future is now, and the war in Ukraine has escalated the threat of destructive ransomware attacks to an all-time high.
• The intelligence community says it’s focused on four potential scenarios.
• “We’re very, very focused on ransomware actors that might conduct attacks against our allies or our nation. We’re very, very focused on some type of cyber activity that’s designed for perhaps Ukraine that spreads more broadly into other countries. Third, is any type of attack that an adversary would conduct on an ally. And finally, certainly our critical infrastructure,” said NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone.
• “In today’s society, everything is connected, everything is interdependent, and therefore, everything is potentially vulnerable,” Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• “In 2019 in the U.S., you had about a bit less than 50,000 people who…graduated from a master’s in computer science
• The numbers just don’t add up: 50,000 people to fill nearly 600,000 jobs. So the tech industry is trying to help fill the void.

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