Cyber security skills gap: 'Pay more and the problem will go away,' says Reuters IT security chief

Charlee Gothard
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Get a bigger chequebook to show you're taking it seriously, suggests Boura

The IT security "skills gap" could quickly be narrowed by simply paying security staff more, according to Thomson Reuters' senior information security architect, Andy Boura, speaking on a panel at ...

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