India, May 26 -- If you were looking for a job in IT during 2020 or 2021, you probably couldn't have chosen a more in-demand IT specialty than cybersecurity. Between securing the devices of hordes of new work-from-home employees and responding to new threats on the horizon like the SolarWinds hack, organizations were investing in hiring more security pros at a time when many other workers in the job market were afraid of being laid off. In the weeks following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, there's no sign of that changing.

That's one of the findings of a new survey of 300 security leaders in the US. The survey also looked at investment priorities for security leaders, how closely these leaders worked with their CEOs, their plan...