4. Lack of budget
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:38 am
3. Lack of specialists
In general, there are specialists, but there is one big problem: there are either highly paid, narrow-profile specialists, or many entry-level specialists without deep knowledge. But there are very few mid-level specialists who are equally well versed in both technical means and organizational measures, and they all very quickly try to move to narrow-profile work, where tasks and responsibilities are less extensive, and money for knowledge and experience is paid more. This is where the personnel shortage grows. There is only one way out - saturation of the market with entry-level specialists. This will lead to an increase in the number of strong middle-level specialists, on whom information security in most companies is based.
If you want, you can work miracles even with a belgium mobile database budget. But there are two limiting factors: the presence of competent information security employees and an adequate management team that forms a general policy and spirit of careful attitude to information assets. If these two factors are missing, then you should not expect miracles.
In this regard, small and medium businesses are in the most difficult situation. They usually do not have money for modern security systems, and they are not always able to pay the average market salary. And this is where all sorts of tricks begin: a system administrator and an information security specialist are one and the same person who is more busy with his main profile, and information security fades into the background. Or the company begins to deploy various Open Source, while forgetting to increase the staff of information security specialists. As a result, there are security solutions on paper, but in fact they are not supported and there is no process approach to managing information security tools.
In general, there are specialists, but there is one big problem: there are either highly paid, narrow-profile specialists, or many entry-level specialists without deep knowledge. But there are very few mid-level specialists who are equally well versed in both technical means and organizational measures, and they all very quickly try to move to narrow-profile work, where tasks and responsibilities are less extensive, and money for knowledge and experience is paid more. This is where the personnel shortage grows. There is only one way out - saturation of the market with entry-level specialists. This will lead to an increase in the number of strong middle-level specialists, on whom information security in most companies is based.
If you want, you can work miracles even with a belgium mobile database budget. But there are two limiting factors: the presence of competent information security employees and an adequate management team that forms a general policy and spirit of careful attitude to information assets. If these two factors are missing, then you should not expect miracles.
In this regard, small and medium businesses are in the most difficult situation. They usually do not have money for modern security systems, and they are not always able to pay the average market salary. And this is where all sorts of tricks begin: a system administrator and an information security specialist are one and the same person who is more busy with his main profile, and information security fades into the background. Or the company begins to deploy various Open Source, while forgetting to increase the staff of information security specialists. As a result, there are security solutions on paper, but in fact they are not supported and there is no process approach to managing information security tools.