With a 300 per cent rise in cyber attacks worldwide since January of last year, jobs in cyber security are also on the rise.
That’s according to the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Centre of Excellence at the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology.
Kathy Knight points to a 2017 survey from Statistics Canada which says one in five Canadian businesses report being impacted by cyber attacks.
The same survey indicated 54 per cent of employees couldn’t carry out their work because computers or networks had been hacked.
Knight says cyber security is an issue for everyone, not just big businesses.
In October of last year, Statistics Canada reported that 42 per cent of Canadians experienced at least one type of cyber security incident since the beginning of the pandemic.
Fourteen per cent reported at least one phishing attack related to COVID-19 test results, a potential cure for the virus or about the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.
Sask Polytech offers a cyber security post-graduate certificate but was unavailable for comment on this issue.

One of the first things students learn at the Cyber Security Centre is ethical hacking.
It may be difficult to think of hacking as ethical, but Knight explains it this way.
The bad actors could send an email with a link which when you click on it, gives them access to all your information.
Ethical hacking in response to this is hacking the criminals to get their information.