A new policy report, co-authored by RISCS Senior Fellow Dr Matt Spencer, and colleagues Carlos Cámara-Menoyo and Timothy Monteath from University of Warwick, provides key insights into any unintended consequences that professionalisation of cyber security may bring, with a particular focus on potential negative impacts on diversity.
The final report makes the case for:
- more extensive data collection to ensure that the implications of professionalisation for diversity in cyber security are well understood;
- enhancing the breadth of the specialisms recognised by the Cyber Security Council to better represent fields such as human factors or security awareness;
- better interdisciplinary engagement with the CyBOK framework to ensure that social and cultural expertise are recognised; and,
- empirical analysis of cyber security problems to ensure that specialisms are aligned with practical needs.
You can read the full report and recommendations here.