Getting an Information Security Job For Dummies

Chapter 1

Securing Your Future in Information Security

In This Chapter

Understanding the need for information security professionals

Reviewing a history of cybercrime

According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, the worldwide shortage of information security professionals exceeds one million workers. You have chosen a great time to learn more about this exciting and rapidly changing field!

This chapter takes a closer look at the changes in business and technology that have given rise to the high demand for information security workers. You also discover why information security is a great career field.

Why Does Information Security Matter?

Information security, or InfoSec, was once considered a technical discipline with little business relevance. Now, however, it is a topic of heated discussions in corporate boardrooms around the world. Information security matters because information technology matters — and because criminals are finding it easy to steal sensitive and private information from organizations’ information systems.

Increased reliance on information systems

Organizations of every kind, as well as a growing number of private citizens, rely on information systems for conducting daily affairs more than ever before. We buy more and more Internet-connected products, ...