Demand for IT security skills is outstripping the market by more than a million job openings according to some experts, which means that, along with a notoriously small community of genuine experts who make a living working to protect (or exploit) high value data, the Peter Principle is often in full effect. As people rise to the level of their incompetence, they bring with them a lot of myth and misinformation—fear, uncertainty and doubt sown to sell products or preserve job security.

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