Gamers make best cyber security experts, McAfee survey says

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/tech/gamers-make-best-cyber-security-experts-survey-says

McAfee reports resulted in saying that, Gamers can be the best candidates for cyber security jobs. The survey involving 300 senior security managers and 650 security professionals, a major percent of respondents stated that, gamers could be a have a potential and skills for cyber security jobs, as they have an impulse to look at things differently, problem solving, logical thinking and active usage of brain.

Another major part of the respondents from the survey, believed that this particular generation, which has a large community of gamers and the young people who starts playing the video games at very young age will help the cyber security industry. As the cyber world is drastically increasing, we have to train more no. of cyber security professionals which might maintain a balance between the one and the bad when it comes to cyber security.

“Human and machines should work together to achieve better results, with the automated programs dealing with small and basic problems, allowing the human to deal with complex problems”, said Grant Bourzikas , Chief information security officer, McAfee.