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Historically, I always closed the year talking about trends, best practices or new technologies. This year I came across different reflections. Product of age, fatigue or the pandemic, my conclusions in 2021 cross the technological barrier to focus on the human. Not least, the center of cybersecurity were people.
Focusing on two axes, the community and the little supply for the current demand.
During this 2021 observe a larger and more integrated community than ever. Personally, this fact makes me very happy, because it is a fact that I consider was necessary, and that today it is our best defense. Blogs, constant news, papers, findings shared by Social Networks, Cybersecurity Women's Societies, Slack Communities and other media from thousands of people in our world, sharing and creating community.
The examples are wide of all those great human groups willing to share information, experiences and intelligence to prepare us all before a common enemy. Knowing that he himself also works as a team and a community, it is very important to remain united and organized, improving and seeking the constant growth of cybersecurity.
I congratulate all those who promote these spaces, who share their own documents for the common good, who freely invite the community to be part of it. It is one of the things that reached me the most during 2021.
From another perspective, the pandemic made us realize, negatively, that we were not prepared to face it. Not because of the lack of technologies that exist and are very good, but because of the lack of people trained in cybersecurity.
Society, companies, and the market itself realized the importance of cybersecurity, turning the issue into part of the corporate strategy, thus creating many jobs to attack this problem, but not having enough supply.
Every day I receive calls from different managers, consulting professionals to fill these positions. This is how they try to support integrators, outsourcing the need, having the same problems we find those passionate in computer security. Thanks to the pandemic, the borders were opened and we can look for resources in other regions, not reaching this option to counteract.
In Latin American countries we have the disadvantage that salaries are globalized, and sales prices are not (a topic that I will discuss in my next note). In addition to the fact that we could not see the urgency of resources that lie ahead in these years. The university, college or postgraduate offer is not prepared for this phenomenon.
