Connectivity is the key of contemporary world. Internet plays a grand role in the scheme of things today. If you want to fathom the extent of influence internet has in our life just try to consider your life prior to the popular usage of internet. Think how you would be doing your simple daily chores and how you would be conducting your life if it was not for the internet.

With this scenario emerges the question of security in this everyday blooming domain of existence. Cyberspace holds everything dear to you from our personal information to our money. Hidden in those encrypted bytes is travelling information about our satellites, atomic power reactors and policy. Even this is just the tip of the iceberg. If this information reaches in the hands of a miscreant or hostile entity, it can prove to be disastrous.

Hence every person, company and even nation has to employ tremendous amount of resources and personnel to this means. Almost every country has now deployed their Computer Emergency Response Teams for the purpose. Still Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is of the opinion that in view of the rising computer security incident the infrastructure is inadequate by a large margin.

Commercial and other organization fare no better in this. A recent study conducted on a diverse sample of organizations concluded that almost half of the organizations surveyed had experienced at least one cyberspace related security incident. Most organizations were found lacking sufficient on this front. Most organizations responded that they found it difficult to recruit sufficiently skilled experts in their cybersecurity teams. Organizations are hardly to be blamed. There is an acute shortage of skilled personnel sufficiently trained to combat cyber security incidents successfully. Reasons for this are multifold. There is a lack of institutes with sufficient training capacity for cybersecurity courses. Along with that professional find this field of profession very stressful and uncertain. They prefer pursuing other specializations in Information Industry rather than opting for field of cybersecurity.

To address this situation it is necessary that government and academic stakeholders work hand in hand with sector specialized agencies to carve out an optimal path. It is very necessary that security establishments respond to advancements in the field very swiftly. The adversary in most cyber security incidents is highly motivated and hence a very skilled and equally agile establishment is pertinent for such security endeavor to succeed.

Most international agencies are of the opinion that progress in cybersecurity infrastructure has been marginally better than previous three years but still there is a long way to go to match the existing threat. As the trends demonstrate the progress is bound to pick up eventually. The business executives, technologists and private citizens must realize that by working in tandem they can protect against their personal and community losses.