Dave Stirling, CISO of Zions Bancorporation, isn’t waiting for a shakeup in the talent pool or some big shift in the job market to solve the cybersecurity skills gap. Instead, he’s making his own luck. How? By changing up his own staffing strategy, “by trying different things and seeing what sticks.”
That approach has Stirling recruiting candidates from the bank’s IT and operations staff, working with local colleges, investing more in training and rethinking how he posts open jobs. He acknowledges that such moves, even when taken all together, aren’t a silver bullet to the well-publicized challenges in finding, hiring and keeping staff.
