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Organizations are also hiring from within
and offering upskilling to increase cur-
rent employees' skills. And it's clear this
upskilling behaviour is being modelled
from the top, as nearly two-thirds of the
surveyed Canadian executives in tech and
business spend three or more hours each
week on work-related learning.
The key takeaways for the defence and
security industries
• Design talent attraction and retention
programs for the cyber function.
• Offer upskilling to increase current
employees' skills in the same key areas
you're hiring.
• If you don't have the resources to attract
and retain top cyber talent, consider
partnering with a reputable managed se-
curity services provider.
This article was originally published on pwc.
com, December 2020 © 2021, Pricewater-
houseCoopers LLP.
Saj is a Partner with PwC Canada and leads
their Canadian Cybersecurity, Privacy & Fi-
nancial Crimes practice. He has internation-
al experience working with financial institu-
tions in North America, Australia, Asia and
Europe helping them from strategy through
execution on their cybersecurity program
and responding to breaches. He has led nu-
merous consulting engagements to define
and execute on business aligned, risk intel-
ligent and sustainable strategies for achiev-
ing cyber resilience. He enjoys teaming up
and working collaboratively with his client's
executive stakeholders and their team to
transform their security, enterprise risk and
technology functions to become more inte-
grated and resilient in the digital age. He is
a frequent speaker at industry events and
conferences, and is regularly sought aer
by clients for presenting complex cyber se-
curity concepts in 'plain language' to client
executives, boards and audit committees.
Canadian executives are looking for future leaders with
stronger so skills to enable better partnership with
IT and the business. Three of the five most-mentioned
attributes among Canadian respondents to the survey
were so skills: critical thinking (49 per cent), commu
-
nication (44 per cent) and creativity (43 per cent).
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