Cybersecurity should be seen as an occupation, not a profession, report says

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/740456/cybersecurity-should-be-seen-as-an-occupation-not-a-profession-report-says

By Steve Ragan
Staff Writer
CSO Online
September 26, 2013

A panel from the National Academy of Sciences, commissioned by the U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security, says that cybersecurity should be seen as 
an occupation and not a profession.

After being commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a 
panel from the National Academy of Sciences reported that the 
cybersecurity field is too young, and the technologies, threats, and 
actions taken to counter them change too rapidly, for professionalization 
to be considered. Thus, cybersecurity is an occupation and not a 
profession.

For some organizations, making cybersecurity a profession may provide a 
useful degree of quality control, the report says, but at the same time, 
professionalization also imposes barriers, which would prevent talented 
workers from entering the field at a time when "demand for cybersecurity 
workers exceeds supply."

Sticking to the quality control aspect of the report, professionalization, 
it says, has the potential to attract workers and establish long-term 
paths to improving the work force overall, but measures such as 
standardized education or requirements for certification, have their 
disadvantages too.

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