A new Visa apprenticeship program aims to grow cybersecurity talent

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Amid increasingly dangerous cybersecurity threats, the best talent in the industry needs to be trained to respond. Visa is doing just that with a new upskilling program open to all workers, whether they work for the organization or not.  

In March 2023 alone, 41.9 million data records were compromised by cyberattacks across the world, a 951% increase over two years, according to IT Governance, a global provider of cyber risk and privacy management solutions. And while the breaches increased the demand for cybersecurity talent across all industries and grew the workforce by 10% in 2022, the demand is still outpacing supply, according to data from computer security service Esentire, with 3.5 million roles still left unfilled in 2023.

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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