2025
...IN DEMAND SKILLS
...Five on, and ‘digital integrity leads’ focus less on technology management, and more on control of automated systems that seamlessly safeguard business operations.
Multi-skilled Cloud / mobile focused
Automated process pilot End-user digital monitoring Business/technology focused Threat Intelligence led AIOps expertise
Software engineering accreditation Cross-organisation communicator
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and their ecosystems of analytic tools will be vitally important. Automated technology is currently more than capable of taking on rote tasks, such as data collection and correlation. But as automation and Machine Learning (ML) continues to evolve toward the goal of Artifi cial Intelligence (AI), it should not degrade the authority of cyber security leaders who oversee this technology and act upon its information. Instead, it should elevate the leader’s position, allowing them to be more strategic and eff ective with their actions. Technological advancements often cause concern in the labour force at the time for concern it could make them irrelevant in some respect – and this concern is not misplaced. Automation in cyber security is poised to make many roles that deal with raw data analysis irrelevant, in a short amount of time. But it also opens the door to new roles which require new expertise. In the years up to 2025, the ability for cyber security professionals to challenge ML parameters and processes they rely upon will become exceedingly valuable. They will need to know that their machines are continually learning, adapting to change, not following false truths, and so forth. This means being able to crack open technology that might otherwise be opaque, which will require more than baseline knowledge in how to train and improve ML algorithms.
LEADership of THE NEW WORKFORCE As risks are reviewed on a larger, faster-moving scale, many cyber security professionals – who may have diff erent job descriptors by 2025 – will have to apply priority logic tools to signifi cantly larger data sets; this requires analytics skills relevant to data science to make the right judgments and ensure a robust prevention strategy. Building and managing the new cyber security workforce puts an onus on organisation leaders to employ mature team-building and motivational techniques that meet the needs of their new wave of employees. Reserves of creative and sceptical thinking will need
to be continually exercised and fed, making the opportunity for exercises like wargaming so invaluable. Leaders will also need to recognise the importance of intercommunication and collaboration to connect synapses – so to speak – within the team. This is an area in which, of all groups, threat
It’s unrealistic to expect today’s cyber security skills to be fi t for purpose for an indefi nite period as we move forward into the 2020s.
actors have excelled. They routinely share knowledge and tools with their peers, thereby raising the bar to defend attacks. For the cyber security community to raise the bar to launch attacks in the context, cyber security professionals need to do more than simply sharing threat alerts. They should, for instance, be writing up and sharing their analytics and playbooks to better prevent attacks. Indeed, all the investment in new skills will be of less value if those future professionals are not sharing their cyber experiences seamlessly.
ACCREDITATION Words | Marina Kidron, Director of Threat Intelligence, Skybox Security |
skyboxsecurity.com
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