The important thing to take away is that the fight or flight response is an automatic response. False alarms! Even though the fight or flight response is automatic, it isn't always accurate. In fact most of the time when the fight or flight response is triggered it is a false alarm-there is no threat to survival. The part of the brain the initiates the automatic part of the fight or flight response, the amygdala, can't distinguish between a real threat and a perceived threat. Chill, no, freeze! Sometimes the perceived threat is so intense it triggers a freeze response.
One-third of respondents said that California is the center of cybersecurity innovation, while 44 percent believe that innovation is most heavily concentrated in D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland. Government agencies and defense/aerospace firms remain magnets for cybersecurity professionals, Duffey says.
Assuming youâd want to be a good guy â a career can mean a six-figure salary, job security, and the potential for upward mobility. More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74% over the past five years, according to a 2015 analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Peninsula Press, a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program. A report from Cisco puts the global figure at one million cybersecurity job openings. Demand is expected to rise to 6 million globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million, says Michael Brown, CEO at Symantec, the worldâs largest security software vendor.