> 0.15 % of the entire us population just for cyber security?

Even better: 0.15% of the entire US population for unfilled jobs.

I'm going to assume most of these aren't permanent positions but gigs.

I'm going to assume the number is for any tech job that has even the slightest but of security function, including any sysadmin, dbeng, webapp dev, etc

It's just too big to be correct.

According to the primary source there are "319,720 additional openings requesting cybersecurity-related skills" included in that number.

https://www.cyberseek.org/index.html#aboutit

You're probably right, any tech ad featuring the tag "security".

Probably non-dev jobs too, managers, tech writers, HR, office assistants, etc.

It is huge. Software engineers in general make up around 0.3% of the world population.

How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?

Seems like the solution being offered up in the article is more bootcamp.

> An eight-week online course could help someone land an entry-level job as a "pen tester," a network security engineer or an incident response analyst, Moore said. Those jobs pay between $60,000 to $90,000 a year, she added

While this is probably true for boot camp web devs, it is also a very real problem for recent college grads who learn about fancy algorithms in their CS degrees, but have no idea what angles of attack exist.

The closest thing to security I learned in university was RSA and why we didn't need to worry unless quantum computing succeeded.

Luckily there are now cyber security professional boot camps to fix this. Not kidding: https://bootcamp.umn.edu/cybersecurity/

Many. Worked with a boot camp grad. She asked for help. Open the file and SQL injection literally dead center of the first page. Not a clue or sense of urgency to fix.

US tech industry bis larger than people imagine. With the ongoing cyber attacks, every company > 10 employees who have a lot at stake needs to hire cyber security specialists.

If we can have 500k police and private guards, we should have 500k cyber security specialists

Does every company > 10 employees have a security guard?

There's probably a point where insurance requires it.

Lots of companies get physical security from:

- the building that rents them an office including a guard in the lobby

- the datacenter that rents them space including guards

- the cloud service taking care of their own datacenters

On the other hand, if you have your own building or rent in an unguarded building, deal with cash, have an actual storefront -- you'll probably be hiring security yourself.

You can make a study show anything you want, just choose the right assumptions.

Sometimes I wonder what percentage of the American population is required to surveil the American population.