“This confusion causes the profession to grow less efficiently than it could,” says IEEE Senior Member Greg Shannon, chief scientist for the CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, in Pittsburgh, and chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. “People can’t say, ‘These are the credentials I need’ and ‘This is how much it is going to cost me to get them.’”
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
IEEE Quote on cybersecurity path - Platt
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/career-guidance/no-clear-path-for-prospective-cybersecurity-specialists
“This confusion causes the profession to grow less efficiently than it could,” says IEEE Senior Member Greg Shannon, chief scientist for the CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, in Pittsburgh, and chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. “People can’t say, ‘These are the credentials I need’ and ‘This is how much it is going to cost me to get them.’”
“This confusion causes the profession to grow less efficiently than it could,” says IEEE Senior Member Greg Shannon, chief scientist for the CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, in Pittsburgh, and chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. “People can’t say, ‘These are the credentials I need’ and ‘This is how much it is going to cost me to get them.’”