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…the only way out of the cybersecurity skills crisis is for a massive short-order skills programme, akin to that for the Millenium Bugbusters , the only one of the previous governments skills programme to deliver results - mainly because it was also the only one subjected to rigorous quality control on the trianing providers - by a team drawn drawn from the main ICT professional bodies, organised by ITNTO the fore-runner of e-Skills.
We almost certainly need a similar programme today, building on the work for the security stream for the National Skills Academy for IT Skills .
But central to success will be the active participation of the public sector, particularly the tribes of central government who need to retain those they have rather than compete in the market place for those they cannot afford. They also need to remember that this is an area where those who come cheap and have not been previously worked in the public sector or otherwise been security vetted, may well have an ulterior motive.
"—When the Cybersecurity S**t Hits the Fan - Computer Weekly Blogs
