The evidence is now on record, drawn directly from the government’ own grant. It confirms what many suspected: professionalisation raises costs, slows workforce growth, reduces competition, and increases barriers to entry. More importantly, it reveals what few are willing to say out loud - whoever wins the grant may be set up to fail. Read the summary. Read the study. See for yourself.
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I swear by Almighty God that I will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
In 2022, I joined a working group organised by a US government body whose mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness.
The goal of this working group was to brainstorm ways to improve the quality and availability of cybersecurity credentials.
According to records in my calendar, I attended as many as nine one-hour meetings between March and November 2022.
I now officially testify that many of these meetings included discussions about how this agency could become the peak body for cybersecurity credentials.
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In this essay, I use open-source intelligence to highlight why it’s so important that the professionalisation grant is set up with well-defined boundaries that avoid the complications of dual roles.
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AustCyber promised to professionalise cybersecurity, took public money, and delivered nothing. Now, the same actors return under a new banner, asking for more. This essay exposes the disavowed failure, the absence of accountability, and the quiet repackaging of a still-unproven idea.
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In this essay, I analyze selected texts on professionalisation to expose the power structures they sustain. My intent is twofold: to invite those shaping these bodies to reflect on how their language may silence or sideline others - and to equip those who feel excluded with a sharper lens to see how language itself can become a quiet instrument of control.
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