The notion of a job for life appeared to have withered away from contemporary existence as surely as Luddites were ejected from the workforce in the early 19th Century.
The ongoing rise of automation, machine learning and the so-called march of the robots meant that humans could not rely on a lifelong career using learnt skills. Even knowledge workers would have to have portfolio skills to survive.
This, however, does not seem to apply to cybersecurity. A recent report from Cisco reported there was a global skills shortage of more than one million people, as governments and corporations belatedly address the seemingly ubiquitous dangers of cybercrime.
