Editorial — Volume 04 / Issue 21
Cyber Culture / Industry

The junior analyst pipeline is broken. We are about to feel it.

We hire mid-level forever and wonder why mid-level keeps getting more expensive.

By Ezra Ofori·May 15, 2026·5 min read

Every CISO survey for the last three years has listed the same complaint: cannot find experienced staff. Almost none of them have asked the obvious follow-up — where were those experienced staff supposed to come from?

We talk to four security leaders who decided to rebuild the bottom of their funnel, and what it cost them.

Ezra Ofori, Midnight Logic
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