The top paying cybersecurity job is a security software engineer with an average annual salary of $233,000 according to a recent report from the job board Dice. But the big story in the cybersecurity labor market is a severe workforce shortage. As the demand for the (cybersecurity) workforce expected to rise to 6 million (globally) by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million, the world is in dire need of experts. Brian Krallis of SurMD has a challenge for hacks all over the world.