When hiring for cybersecurity roles on your team, do you require a skills assessment or simulation to test candidate capabilities?

Talent Sourcing & Hiring

Yes, for every cybersecurity role23%

Yes, but not for all roles62%

No11%

I'm not sure2%

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Senior Information Security Manager in Software, 501 - 1,000 employees

This is important as there are candidates that have paper certifications but can’t really speak in detail about security.

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