U.S. Has 'Great Hole' to Fill in Cybersecurity.

• Author: Harper, Jon
• Position: UP FRONT

* The U.S. government and private sector are getting better at cyber threat detection amid an onslaught of increasingly sophisticated attacks by adversaries in the digital world. However, the nation has a major workforce problem that needs to be addressed, Microsoft President Brad Smith said at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.

"The great hole that we have right now [in cybersecurity] is actually in people, it's in the workforce," he said. "There's 462,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the...