InformationWeek Radio: State of Information Security Salaries & Careers

InformationWeek Radio: The IW Salary Survey shows that security pros have high salaries and great job security ... but how long will it last?

Sara Peters, Senior Editor

May 15, 2014

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Security pros are in high demand, and if the 621 security staffers and managers who took part in InformationWeek’s 2014 IT Salary Survey are any indication, they also earn much more than the average IT pro and enjoy more job security.

But how long will that last?

According to Mark Aiello, president of Boston-based cyber-security professional services and staffing firm Cyber 360 Solutions, hiring managers today are struggling to find candidates for security positions because they're looking in the wrong places and asking for the wrong credentials. They might be desperately emptying their pockets for security pros now, but eventually they'll wise up. How long will that take and how will it change the average security pro's paycheck?

Join me Tuesday, May 20, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a live online radio interview with Aiello to review the results of the InformationWeek IT Salary Survey, discuss what a career in security is like now, and imagine what it might be like in a few years.

Register now for this episode of the InformationWeek Salary & Careers radio series, powered by Dark Reading. Don't forget to bring along your burning questions for Mark on Tuesday, because he'll be answering some questions from the audience during the broadcast. Anything in particular you'd like me to ask him? Let me know in the comments below.

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About the Author

Sara Peters

Senior Editor

Sara Peters is Senior Editor at Dark Reading and formerly the editor-in-chief of Enterprise Efficiency. Prior that she was senior editor for the Computer Security Institute, writing and speaking about virtualization, identity management, cybersecurity law, and a myriad of other topics. She authored the 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey and founded the CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law -- a collaborative project that investigated the dichotomy between laws regulating software vulnerability disclosure and those regulating Web vulnerability disclosure.


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