The average salary level for information security specialist vacancies

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This result was shown by a study by PAO Headhunter (hh.ru), timed to coincide with the International Day of Information Security, which is celebrated on November 30. In total, 4.7 thousand vacancies for information security specialists were posted on this platform as of the end of November, which is 27% more than a year earlier. The highest demand for such employees is in IT, the financial and banking sector, the fuel and energy complex and public administration.

reached 70 thousand jamaica whatsapp number database rubles, which i s 6.8 thousand rubles more than last year. At the same time, the authors of the study drew attention to the very large range of salary levels in a number of regions. For example, in Bashkiria - from 30 thousand to more than 150 thousand rubles.

Anastasia Fedorova, Development Director of the Cybersecurity Monitoring Center of K2 Cybersecurity LLC, called the personnel shortage one of the key problems for domestic cybersecurity: "The shortage of specialists began to be felt already at the end of 2019. During the pandemic, due to the transition to remote work, the demand for specialists in the field of protection increased significantly, but in 2022, after the publication of Decree No. 250 of the President of the Russian Federation, it reached new limits. There is a shortage of information security specialists both among integrators and within organizations."

Natalia Yagovkina, HR Director of Garda Technologies LLC (GC Garda), sees the most severe shortage of practical specialists, which was aggravated by the relocation of some of the personnel of companies that left the Russian market: "Judging by our experience in searching for such personnel, there are enough specialists in the field of theoretical information security on the market, but in terms of practical security, there is a significant shortage. Many strong specialists left the country along with the foreign corporations that relocated them. And along with this, the risks of hacking, data theft and other information troubles have increased."

Olga Karpova, Head of the Information Security Department at RooX LLC, estimated the shortage of information security specialists at 500-700 thousand people. In her opinion, the personnel shortage was a direct consequence of the regulators' activity: "Roskomnadzor has increased the number of scheduled inspections of organizations for compliance with the legality of processing and legitimate processes for processing personal data from 500 inspections per year until 2022 to more than 1,200 inspections in 2022 - according to data from the official website of Roskomnadzor."

According to the Head of the Operations and Deployment Department of Richmedia LLC (iSpring) Alexander Trofimov, the personnel shortage is due to the complexity of the subject area of ​​information security: "It takes a long time to train a specialist who can benefit the company, and experienced ones are expensive and can choose a place of work with the most comfortable conditions. The threshold after which a specialist begins to improve real security is high, this determines the complexity of training newcomers and the high cost of hiring. The high demand aggravates the situation with personnel. It is due, on the one hand, to the increased complexity and mass of attacks, from which even small companies are not protected, and on the other hand, to legislative requirements for the protection of critical information infrastructure."

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