CyberPath can get the framework right and still get the system wrong
I read the CyberPath Occupational Framework and Capability Framework because I wanted to understand how the Professionalisation Consortium is thinking about genuine cy...
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Professionalisation
A structured exploration of how cybersecurity professionalisation unfolded in Australia, analyzing the arguments, tracing the decisions, institutions, and pressures that shaped its trajectory.
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KordaMentha Called for Ethics in Cyber Professionalisation. Thirteen Months Later, It Faced ICAC Scrutiny
KordaMentha was one of only two professional services firms that recommended cyber professionalisation to Home Affairs. (1, 2) Its April 2023 submission argued that p...
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The Economics of Professionalization: Revaluing the AISA Membership
Professionalization is often presented as a project of standards, ethics, and recognition. It is also a revenue model. The numbers suggest that if AISA adopts a profes...
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Financing Cybersecurity Professionalization: A Monte Carlo Analysis of Salary-Linked Membership Models
A credible cybersecurity professionalization body requires more than formal authority. It also requires stable, recurring revenue to govern independently, audit effect...
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Auditing the State with AI: A Proof of Concept Using CyberPath's Grant Agreement
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a tool that governments may use to monitor or influence citizens. This paper examines a different possibility: whether AI...
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What Would a Credible Cybersecurity Professionalization Body Cost?
A professionalization body that wants to operate credibly needs enough money to govern independently, audit meaningfully, and enforce standards. If it is underfunded,...
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Would you pay $105,295.22 to be called a Chartered Cyber Security Professional?
How much might individuals need to spend if a cyber professionalization scheme made degrees and certifications the fastest route to Chartered status? To test that que...
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A Manual for Productive Discussions about Professionalisation
Cybersecurity professionalisation is controversial for a reason. It touches standards, power, identity, access, public trust, and the future shape of the field itself....
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Cyber Professionalisation Consultation - Part 2
As part of this process, AISA established a Professionalisation Subcommittee and publicly announced its seven members. It also published a PDF setting out the Subcommi...
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Cyber Professionalisation Consultation - Part 1
I’m going to formally record how the consultation process for cyber professionalisation unfolded in Australia. It’s unclear how many parts there will be, but people wi...
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Designing the Gate: Inside Australia's Cyber Professionalization Effort
After months of digging - investigations, confidential conversations, FOI requests - I can finally lay out a comprehensive, end-to-end, documented account of how cyber...
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Understand Before You Fix
The evidence is now on record, drawn directly from the government’ own grant. It confirms what many suspected: professionalisation raises costs, slows workforce growth...
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I Took Part in Secret Meetings About Professionalising Cybersecurity
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 wh...
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The Spectre of Dual Roles
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 t...
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AustCyber Took Government Money to Professionalise Cyber. It Delivered Nothing.
AustCyber promised to professionalise cybersecurity, took public money, and delivered nothing. Now, the same actors return under a new banner, asking for more. This es...
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Words That Bind: How Professionalisation Speaks Us Into Silence
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 ...
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Will professionalisation prevent the next Veronica Theriault?
Professionalisation should stand on its own merits — not on the illusion that it will prevent the next fraud. If we build professionalisation on that fantasy, we are n...
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Listening Before Leaping: AISA's Cautionary Path on Professionalisation
Professionalisation was explored, revisited, and reconsidered. AISA’s journey reflects not opposition, but the careful weighing of complex questions over time.
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Would professionalisation have stopped the Hacker from Hell?
A man faked his way into cybersecurity leadership — not because the system lacked rules, but because no one cared to check his credentials. Professionalisation won’t f...
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Only 6 out of 220 recommended professionalisation to Home Affairs
When six organisations out of 220 steer government policy, the question is not whether professionalisation is necessary — but whether it is legitimate.
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The Spectres of Cybersecurity Professionalisation
Professionalisation is haunted by spectres: contradictory evidence, uncertain promises, unresolved concerns, lingering doubts, incomplete solutions, false closure, uns...
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Professionalisation as the Profane Made Sacred
The cybersecurity industry is being overtaken by a push for professionalisation. Its proponents justify this push as a necessary step to better protect the public, bus...
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Who decides who is a cyber professional and why trust them?
Professionalisation 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 Opportunity...