Comment: This is a good article for comments on. Should Cybersecurity be professionalized??
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By Jaikumar VijayanAugust 5, 2014 04:15 PM ET Computerworld - It By Jaikumar Vijayan The time is ripe for industry and government stakeholders to consider professionalizing cybersecurity, according to a report from Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy (download PDF).
Demand for cybersecurity skills is increasing exponentially, but the educational, training and certification processes to prep people for careers in the field continue to be highly decentralized, ad hoc and non-standard.
"We not only have a shortage of the highly technically skilled people required to operate and support systems already deployed, but also an even more desperate shortage of people who can design secure systems, write safe computer codes" and create the tools needed to prevent, detect and mitigate attacks and system failures, the study said.
ComputerWorld/ Full Article Here/ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250174/Cybersecurity_should_be_professionalized
What...that is a laugh...LOL They couldn't professionalise it if they tried...not at this stage in the sector's evolution. IMHO the boat has been well and truly missed for this...but there will always be thought needy people who want to valorise themselves etc., and so will come up with these thoughts of ideas.
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