5 Places To Find Cybersecurity Talent 🕵🏽‍♂️

🔥Hot take... there is no cybersecurity talent shortage.

Yes, there are a ton of jobs unfilled everyday in our field. However, many people suggest that we can do better in filling those roles…

Here are some often overlooked places to find that talent:

Look Within Your Own Company

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1/ Within your OWN company! There is so much good talent within your organization you might be passing up. IT Helpdesk, Project Managers, Engineering Managers, Engineers, or even current security staff looking for change within.

Experienced Engineers and Engineering Managers

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2/ Experienced Engineers There are so many engineers out there that already bake security into their work and/or are security minded. Fullstack Engineers, SRE's, etc.. Why don't they apply? Well, they may feel one needs special certs for a security career, and thus not apply.

Twitter / Social Media

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3/ Twitter / Social Media There are many aspiring security people out there. They literally have "aspiring" in their bio for example. Many are writing blogs about their journey or posting under certain hashtags.

Competitions and CTFs

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4/ Competitions There are TONS of competitions out there where people are hacking everyday. @globalcptc is a great example, but there are so many others. @CTFtime is a great index of CTF's as well.

Bug Bounty

What better else than people that are already familiar with your apps?

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5/ Bug Bounty Policy Everyday there are folks working on discovering application security issues similar to yours. Heck, they may be working on your apps right now. Can easily post a link to your careers page in your policy page.

Summary

Yes, there are a ton of jobs unfilled everyday in our field. However, many people suggest that we can do better in filling those roles.

Here are some places to look:

1. Look Within Your Company

2. Experienced Engineers and Engineering Managers

3. Twitter / Social Media

4. Competitions and CTFs

5. Bug Bounty

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There is no cybersecurity shortage. Just need to know where to look. Here are 5 places to find cybersecurity talent....🧵