Cybersecurity jobs in Ireland to double within 10 years

Professor Donna O’Shea, newly appointed as chair of cybersecurity in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), and the newly formed Munster Technological University (MTU) from CIT’s merger with IT Tralee. Picture: Darragh Kane

CYBERSECURITY is on track to double its current 6,000 Irish jobs total to 12,000 by 2030, says Donna O’Shea, the newly appointed chair of cybersecurity in CIT.

Head of CIT’s Department of Computer Science, Prof O’Shea says Ireland is ideally positioned to compete for its share of the 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs predicted to be created globally by the end of 2021 (cybersecurity jobs figures according to research by Cybersecurity Ventures).