http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/12/info-security-hiring-survey.aspx By William Jackson GCN.com March 12, 2010 Federal government is a good place for information security professions during the current economic downturn, with relatively stable budgets, rising wages and growing employment opportunities, according to a recent survey by ISC(2) (the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium). Nearly 75 percent of government respondents received salary increases in 2009, more than half expect no change in information technology budgets this year and nearly 20 percent expect budgets to increase, and about 60 percent expect to hire new security employees this year. "The results from our latest career impact survey show that in a very difficult economic environment, organizations are placing an even higher value on the work that information security professionals do," said W. Hord Tipton, the consortium's executive director. ISC(2) conducted a survey of 2,980 professionals worldwide in December and January, and extracted data on 688 U.S. government respondents. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Mar 14 2010 - 23:23:25 PDT
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