How does a problem of developer scarcity relate to cybersecurity issues?

Here the shortage becomes terrifying. The lack of professional developers is exacerbating the already massive global IT issue of cybersecurity.
🔓 The Growing Risk

• Ransomware is increased more than 150% in the past three years.

• By the year 2025, cybercrime expenses may reach up to 10.5 trillion every year.

• The success of most of such attacks is due not to the genius of hackers, but to the lack of patching, misconfiguration, or security-first code.

And guess who’s responsible for patching? Developers.
🧑‍💻 Developers Wearing Security Hats
Most companies, particularly the SMEs, lack sufficient cybersecurity professionals. So who picks up the slack? Developers. That is to say that you are writing features in the morning and writing critical patches in the evening.

The issue is not all developers are trained as security experts. This generates weaknesses.
🌍 Global Impact

• Ransomware slowed down treatment in the healthcare systems.
• Colonial Pipeline (U.S.) was forced to close supply of gas.

• Government and corporate networks were revealed in hack SolarWinds Hack.

One thing was common about each of these attacks, a lack of security-skilled professionals.
🛡️ The Way Forward

• Basic security training is required of developers (OWASP, secure coding).

• Businesses should focus on the recruiting or educating of cybersecurity teams.
• States have to collaborate around the world to combat cybercrime.

In brief: the talent gap is not merely to decelerate innovation: it is to reduce the world to be less safe.