As the security industry continues to grapple with a shortage in skilled professionals, particularly within very specific niches like application security, the state of security professional development continues to keep the industry locked up in a number of hotly contested debates. Beyond the most obvious argument over the value of security certifications, some security pundits have stepped up to argue about a more fundamental impediment to rising the tide for all boats in the industry: the cost of paid training.
“Mathematically it’s easily demonstrable that organizations can’t afford to send all of their employees to a class when you’re talking classes that typically are around $1,000 a day,” says Xeno Kovah, lead infosec engineer at The Mitre Corporation.
SOURCE: darkreading.com
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