Listen "CRESTCon 2023: CREST President, Rowland Johnson"
Episode Synopsis
In our second podcast from CRESTCon Europe 2023, we catch up with Rowland Johnson, CREST President.
CREST is a non profit organisation focused on building standards in cyber. This includes accreditation of companies and certification of individual cybersecurity professionals.
The cybersecurity sector faces a number of challenges: professionalisation, improving diversity, dealing with a stubborn skills shortage and the potential, and potential threats, of AI.
So how does the industry — and the organisations it serves — move from what Johnson describes as a “market failure” to a collaborative world based on a network of trust?
And how can cybersecurity professionals harness technology to do more?
Interview by Stephen Pritchard
CREST is a non profit organisation focused on building standards in cyber. This includes accreditation of companies and certification of individual cybersecurity professionals.
The cybersecurity sector faces a number of challenges: professionalisation, improving diversity, dealing with a stubborn skills shortage and the potential, and potential threats, of AI.
So how does the industry — and the organisations it serves — move from what Johnson describes as a “market failure” to a collaborative world based on a network of trust?
And how can cybersecurity professionals harness technology to do more?
Interview by Stephen Pritchard
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