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Why Annual Penetration Testing Is No Longer Enough in Today's Threat Landscape
If you only went to the doctor once a year, you probably would not assume you were perfectly healthy for the other 364 days. Health changes over time. New conditions can develop, existing issues can worsen, and unexpected problems may arise between checkups. That is why people increasingly rely on regular monitoring and preventive care rather than waiting for an annual appointment to discover something has gone wrong. Cybersecurity works in much the same way. For many years, annual penetration testing has been considered a cybersecurity best practice. Organizations schedule an assessment, receive a report, address the findings, and repeat the process the following year. In relatively static environments, this approach provided a reasonable level of assurance. Modern organizations, however, no longer operate in static environments. Cloud adoption has accelerated. APIs have become essential to digital services. Development teams deploy updates continuously, and third-party integrations have become increasingly common. As organizations move faster, their attack surfaces evolve just as quickly. A system that was secure six months ago may look very



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Indonesia Is Buying More Cybersecurity Technology. Are Its People Ready?
Indonesia is investing more in cybersecurity technology as businesses move deeper into cloud computing, AI and digital services. Security platforms are becoming more sophisticated, but the people operating them have to keep pace. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that 95% of cybersecurity professionals reported at least one skills need within their organizations. AI was identified as the top skills gap at 41%, followed by cloud security at 36%. The issue, then, isn't simply a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. It's a shortage of people with the specific skills needed to secure increasingly complex technology. NEW TECHNOLOGY CREATES NEW SECURITY SKILLS A company moving its infrastructure to the cloud needs professionals who understand cloud architecture, identity and access management and cloud-specific vulnerabilities. An organization adopting AI needs people who understand how AI systems can be secured and how attackers can exploit them. A security team deploying more automated tools still needs analysts who can investigate alerts and distinguish a genuine attack from a false positive. The

The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Indonesia Can’t Afford to Ignore
As businesses, government institutions and other organizations accelerate digital adoption, the need for cybersecurity professionals continues to grow. At the same time, the skills required to protect increasingly complex environments are changing. Cloud security, threat intelligence, security operations, penetration testing and artificial intelligence are becoming part of the modern cybersecurity skill set. The gap between available talent and the capabilities organizations actually need is becoming harder to ignore. CYBERSECURITY NEEDS ARE CHANGING FASTER THAN SKILLS The global cybersecurity workforce is facing a skills shortage alongside its broader talent challenge. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that 95% of cybersecurity professionals surveyed reported at least one skills need within their teams, while 59% described those needs as critical or significant. The study also found that 88% had experienced at least one significant cybersecurity consequence because of skills shortages. For Indonesia, the implication is clear: building a cybersecurity team isn't simply about filling vacancies. Organizations need professionals who can apply their knowledge to real security problems. The skills required are also changing rapidly. The World

The AI Talent Gap Is Still the Weakest Link in Indonesia's Digital Transformation
Introduction How many people on your team truly understand how to build, secure, and govern AI-based systems today. For most organizations, the honest answer is far fewer than what's actually needed. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 found that nearly 39 percent of workers' core skills are expected to change significantly by 2030, with AI and big data sitting at the top of the list of skills most in demand and hardest to fill. ITSEC Asia, which works with organizations across Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and the UAE, sees the same pattern play out almost everywhere. AI adoption is moving far faster than organizations' ability to build, secure, and responsibly govern the technology. Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 Demand for AI Talent Is Growing Faster Than the Supply This isn't simply a headcount problem, it's a widening gap between how fast technology is being adopted and how fast organizations can produce people genuinely capable of handling it. * ISC2's workforce study puts the
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