A cyber-savvy nation through reskilling
A CYBER-SAVVY NATION THROUGH RESKILLING
By Stuart Corner, InnovationAUS
So great is the shortage of cybersecurity skills in Australia that organisations have no hope of recruiting the people they need and must instead resort to casting a wider net and training suitable candidates with the skills needed to combat the growing threats they now face.
That’s the view of Professor Richard Buckland, professor in cybercrime cyberwar and cyberterror at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and director of SECedu, the Australian Cybersecurity Education Network.
In Scaling Cyber Skills, an episode of the Bridging the Cyber Divide video series produced as a partnership between InnovationAus and CyberArk, Prof Buckland said there were 600 students undertaking cybersecurity training at UNSW – a twelvefold increase in five years – and all already had jobs to go to.
