{"id":11958,"date":"2020-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.x4engineering.com\/salaries-in-cyber-security\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:49:55","slug":"salaries-in-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.x4engineering.com\/us\/salaries-in-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Salaries in cyber security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; el_class=&#8221;dark&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]The world has woken up to cyber security, with stories in the news becoming a weekly occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week the report, by NHS Digital\u2019s head of security operations, Chris Flynn, said there was a \u201cfalse sense of security\u201d among staff over cyber threats and highlighted a range of security failings, including weak passwords and poorly protected patient data.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with these threats, businesses and government need experts who can protect their systems from cyber criminals \u2013 they are also willing to pay high salaries as this kind of protection is invaluable. Companies can lose millions as a result of a hack, with the biggest threat being to their reputation. Beaming recently published new research that revealed the impact of cybercrime on UK businesses in 2016, showing that 2.9 million British companies were hit by some sort of cybercrime at a total cost of \u00a329.1 billion.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; el_class=&#8221;light&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 30px;\">It is predicted that online crime will cost businesses as much as \u00a31.4 trillion a year by 2019. So cyber security experts are among the most prized professionals worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Salaries in cyber security are some of the fastest growing in the UK rising at an average of 14% a year. In August 2017, the average salary for cyber security jobs rose by \u00a31,386. 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