Soft Skills/Career Enhancement

W3-3G. Your ’Future of Work” in Security: Next 10 Years Forecast and Roadmap

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Room 3G

Description

As a series of tsunamis continues to crash into our personal and professional lives, what does this mean for professionals forging careers in cybersecurity, audit, risk, governance and privacy? This is the focus of this session and you’ll be surprised and even shocked at what your future holds. First, a variety of fast-moving, high-momentum technologies are reshaping business models and radically altering what it takes to secure the enterprise. We’ll examine the impact of 15 technologies which have already ignited a massive restructuring of the tech workforce. The good news is this has created brand new job and career opportunities for security professionals which will be presented in detail. Second, the so-called Great Workforce Reshuffling that took root during the Covid pandemic---changing how, when, where, and with whom we work---and is now becoming normalized. How tech professionals are managed and paid, how their performance is evaluated, and especially how security is strategized and operationalized will dramatically change, impacting your job options. Finally, the changing composition of work teams and how work will be performed is placing an extremely high premium on soft skills: which ones are essential for your security career success will be revealed. Bottom line: your career success or failure will depend on the choices you will make in five specific areas which this session will present in detail as your roadmap for the next 5 to 10 years. The session draws upon Foote Partners’ unique deep-dive research, analyses, and forecasts produced from the firm’s research partnerships with 4,400 employers in 38 industries. We will challenge conventional thinking about how the unfolding Future of Work will play out in the security workforce in the next 5-10 years. We’ll share unique insights into new job and career prospects for the RMISC audience driven by powerful integration of emerging technologies, workforce transitions, and economic/cultural influences. Among the emerging technologies this session will counterpoint are: AI Revolution(Applied AI, ML, Generative AI); Compute/Connectivity(Cloud/Edge, IR); Digital Future-Building(Next-Gen SW development, Trust Architecture/Digital Identity); Cutting-Edge Engineering(Mobility, Bioengineering, SpaceTech); and Sustainability(Electrification/Renewables, ClimateTech).

Learner Objectives

After completing this session, the participants will..." Learning Objective #1: Understand how fast-moving emerging technologies, global economics, and pandemic-driven labor shake-ups are SPECIFICALLY IMPACTING their jobs and career opportunities in cybersecurity, risk, audit, privacy, and governance now and over the next 5-10 years Learning Objective #2: Learn how they can supercharge their security jobs/careers by focusing on the right combination of skills associated with 15 hot transversal technologies: AI Revolution(Applied AI, ML, Generative AI); Compute/Connectivity(Cloud/Edge, IR); Digital Future-Building(Next-Gen SW development, Trust Architecture/Digital Identity); Cutting-Edge Engineering(Mobility, Bioengineering, SpaceTech); and Sustainability(Electrification/Renewables, ClimateTech). Learning Objective #3: Discover that their career success or failure will depend on choices they will make over the next 10 years in five specific areas, and what the critical factors are in each area so they can make smarter choices in constructing a career roadmap(or their next job). Learning Objective #4: Learn which 16 soft skills employers are actively searching for, developing, and willing to pay higher cash premiums in cybersecurity, audit, risk, compliance and privacy jobs. Learning Objective #5: Compare their pay against up-to-date cybersec/audit/governance salaries & skills/certifications cash pay premiums at 4,400 US/Canadian employers (data from Foote Partners’ 2024 IT Professional Salary Survey and 2024 IT Skills Demand and Pay Trends Report).