Chartered Institute of Information Security Calls for Better Collaboration on Skills and Pathways

Speaking four months after the IISP was renamed as the Charted Institute of Information Security (CIIS), CEO Amanda Finch said the re-branding was “great for us, as it puts on the map” after three and a half years of application.

Speaking at Plymouth University's Secure South West conference, she said that chartered status was important as it is “recognizing us as a proper profession” and that the CIIS is “the only pure play information security institution to have been granted Royal Charter status and is dedicated to raising the standard of professionalism in information security.”

She said that cybersecurity is still “badly defined” as a term, and work is needed to make it a profession. Admitting that we cannot be “renaissance people who do everything,” the profession has grown from when you needed to be generalist to consider multi-disciplined areas, taking in physical science, psychology, legal, compliance and different skill sets.

The CIIS determines that professionalism depends on:

An agreed body of knowledge and skills that professionals need to have to work effectively in the field
Ways to provide those skills through education and training programs
Ways to accredit this process (both those identifying the body of knowledge and those teaching it) and attest that the individual has acquired those skills
The mastery of certain defined skill sets through these processes
Ways to demonstrate that practitioners have acquired those skills and can apply them competently
Ways practitioners can refresh that knowledge through continuing education
Codes of Ethics to ensure that practitioners act professionally

Finch argued that we need to recognize ..

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