If refineries shut down and the price of gas goes to $10/gallon is that not a "real shortage" because there is still a market clearing price and I can still buy gas? I disagree.

I think the fact that software engineers get offered $120k+ out of school to fiddle with js frameworks indicates a real shortage personally.

>>> I think the fact that software engineers get offered $120k+ out of school to fiddle with js frameworks indicates a real shortage personally.

Software engineers from a top school, who passed the most hardcore interviews in the most selective firms in the world, to live in the most expensive city on the planet where a single bedroom flat is $4k a month.

I don't think so. There really are not 3 million jobs in cybersecurity.

There is not much demand for people who can run a scanner or set up a firewall. Not to mention that a setup is a single day of work, it's not even close to a full time job.

Maybe they are counting every guy who ever plugged a broadband modem as a security specialist.