A 2025 McKinsey report found that organizations continue to face challenges filling roles such as data scientists and analysts and are turning to reskilling and upskilling to meet workforce needs.

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

In our hyper-connected world, we rely on encrypted communications every day—to shop online, digitally sign documents, make bank transactions, check our steps on fitness trackers. But today’s ...