There are areas of the information security market where recruitment is less affected, most noticeably in the public sector. Many major consultancies and systems integrators continued to recruit during 2008 for security practitioners to work on long term government projects. This slowed somewhat from the final quarter of 2008, but we anticipate recruitment in this area will continue during 2009. Most commonly the skills required are security architecture and design, security risk assessment and security policy development.

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