I recently advertised on Kaggle to find a data scientist to help answer a question I was pondering: With the spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the last year, were companies seeking candidates with corresponding mitigation skills? The idea was to scan and analyze job board posts to see if Imperva could find any evidence of a trend.
We ended up working with a small analytics consulting company to help us tease out the trends, and I think you will find the results interesting. On a worldwide basis, they point to a sustained increase in demand for professionals having DDoS mitigation experience across IT security, network engineering and operations, systems administration and DevOps.
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Great research. I like some of the other graphs in the content showing what jobs in which locations in both the U.S. and globally.
DDoS attacks are serious problems that, unfortunately, both business owners and company IT guys fail to recognize. At this moment, specialists will rule the DDoS scene, and I do think that there’s a shortage of DDoS mitigation skills today.
A big opportunity, I must say.