“There were a lot of open positions for cybersecurity and, in between, this Covid-19 pandemic has happened. There is an increase in demand, particularly from the Big Four consulting companies and the IT services companies catering to the BFSI sector,” he elaborated. The last couple of weeks has seen a deferment in onboarding of new employees, but the demand remains, he said. However, for positions like digitisation (specialists) and regular developer skills, demand has fallen, “so these positions have been withdrawn”, he added.
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In security parlance, endpoints refer to remote devices in the corporate network, such as laptops or other wireless and mobile devices. “Earlier, endpoint protection was restricted to antivirus or anti-malware solutions and they were more 'prevention' software. There was no constant monitoring and threat analysis. Now, all of these endpoints sitting in various houses become targets, so there has to be continuous monitoring. So, the nature of IT security will change quite a bit,” he pointed out. “Cybersecurity professionals will be the first roles which will be filled post-lockdown,” Kamal Karanth, cofounder of specialist staffing firm Xpheno, said.