Steve Morgan

The Q2 2015 Edition of Cybersecurity Ventures’ Cybersecurity Market Report indicates that cybersecurity hiring is trending up, and will continue for the foreseeable future. Key information on cybersecurity hiring from the Q2 Report: Demand for (U.S.) information security professionals is expected to grow by 53 percent through 2018. More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years, according to a Peninsula Press (a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program) analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The demand for information security professionals is expected to…

The Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) market is continuing to grow as companies look to outsource Cybersecurity. Infonetics Research says the managed security market will exceed $9 billion by 2017, in its “Cloud and CPE Managed Security Services” report. Frost & Sullivan researchers predict the EMEA MSSP market will reach $5 billion by 2018. “Threat intelligence, research, detection and remediation services are likely to grow at a rate twice that of security asset monitoring and management, becoming a critical focus area that will distinguish market leaders from the rest,” stated Network Security Industry Principal, Frank Dickson. “North American Managed Security…

The mobile security space is going to explode. According to Gartner, nearly 2.2 billion smart phones and tablets were sold to end users in 2014. “In 2014 in the US, mobile web traffic exceeded desktop web traffic for the first time as mobile has become the most convenient and cost-effective way to get online” says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Chief Technology Officer at AVG Technologies, one of the largest providers of consumer security, privacy, performance and backup mobile applications and software for Windows, iOS and Android devices.  “So in 2015, we will see mobile apps becoming the primary target for hackers, with…

Cybersecurity Ventures has announced the first edition of the Cybersecurity 500, a directory of the 500 hottest and most innovative cybersecurity companies to watch in 2015. The Cybersecurity 500 can be seen here: FireEye, a cybersecurity darling tops the list of 500. The Cybersecurity 500 is a keyword-searchable directory. Users can type in a cybersecurity term or acronym i.e. ‘malware’, ‘incident response’, ‘threat management’, ‘encryption’, ‘mobile security’ etc., and then view a list of companies who provide solutions in that category. A link to the corporate website is displayed next to each company that is listed. The idea behind the…