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Professor Carsten Maple supports the announcement of new cyber security guidelines

Professor Carsten Maple, WMG Cyber Security CentreA consortium of industry, academia and government bodies have created cyber security learning guidelines which are to be embedded into BCS accredited UK Computer Science and IT-related degrees.

Cyber security understanding and knowledge is necessary to securely build the digital future and the IT infrastructure upon which the UK economy relies. These new guidelines directly address objective four of the Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy: “to equip the UK to have the cross-cutting knowledge, skills and capability it needs to underpin all our cybersecurity objectives”, the initiative will also address a severe skills shortage by introducing more people to the opportunity of pursuing a career within the cybersecurity profession.

Professor Maple, Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering at WMG’s Cyber Security Centre and Vice chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing said “This marks a significant shift in the teaching of security in higher education. Cyber security is now being recognised as integral to every relevant computing discipline from computer game development to network engineering. Previously, cyber security was treated as a separate discipline to computing with students being taught how to create applications or develop systems and technology but not how to secure them; leading to proliferation of systems with built-in vulnerabilities. Academia, industry and government have all recognised this, which is why we have come together to address this issue and provide a practical and accessible way of incorporating cybersecurity into our curricula, and move the discipline forward.”

For more details on the announcement visit the ISC2 website

Tue 30 Jun 2015, 10:10 | Tags: Cyber Security Centre Carsten Maple Research