Cybersecurity should be professionalized – or not?

This piece, and many others, proposes to professionalize cybersecurity. I’m not sure that it is possible or desirable… 

While demand for cybersecurity skills is increasing exponentially, the educational, training and certification processes to prepare people for careers in the field continue to be highly decentralized, ad hoc and non-standard, says a new report. This is leading for renewed calls for the professionalization of the cybersecurity field, especially since the IT industry currently has a shortage of the highly technically skilled people who can design secure systems, write safe computer code and create the tools needed to prevent, detect and mitigate attacks and system failures. Professionalizing the industry would create clearly defined roles and career paths for people entering the field and make it easier to establish education and training requirements.

Cybersecurity should be professionalized – Computerworld.

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