Only 6 out of 220 recommended professionalisation to Home Affairs
27 Apr 2025When six organisations out of 220 steer government policy, the question is not whether professionalisation is necessary — but whether it is legitimate.
Read more →Benjamin Mossé Thinking in systems. Reasoning from evidence and logic.
Ransomware ‘69s’ Australia
20 Apr 2025ACN’s State of the Industry 2024 report states that “69 per cent of businesses have experienced a ransomware attack” (p. 21 and 27). This is obviously an er...
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The Spectres of Cybersecurity Professionalisation
26 Mar 2025Professionalisation is haunted by spectres: contradictory evidence, uncertain promises, unresolved concerns, lingering doubts, incomplete solutions, false cl...
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Professionalisation as the Profane Made Sacred
12 Mar 2025The cybersecurity industry is being overtaken by a push for professionalisation. Its proponents justify this push as a necessary step to better protect the p...
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Who decides who is a cyber professional and why trust them?
25 Feb 2025Professionalisation is both the mechanism that enforces an economic model and the ideology that justifies it. In this essay, I set out to analyse the Grant O...
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