Both domains represent areas where technology capabilities, resource access, and security concerns are intersecting in our increasingly technology-dependent world. Due to these factors, there is increasing regulatory attention evolving around both as governments recognize their strategic importance.
Cybersecurity’s ‘rarest earths’
Rare earths comprise about 17 natural elements, each of which has become mandatory for modern technology and warfare, such as smartphones, weapon precision guiding systems, magnets for wind farms and EV motors, plus many other use cases.
But not all rare earths are equal, and there are four or five that are considered the rarest. This analogy can extend to certain cybersecurity skills, which although all critical for modern security differ in their level of rarity. The following can be considered the “rarest earths” of the cybersecurity world.
