True, many credentials are looked at as being protectionism, however, I
am very glad that professional associations have forced competency in
all the professions mentioned, funeral directors, hair dressers,
lawyers, doctors, and the like.
Plain common sense should tell us that the limiting of people offering
the service to those who prove in some relevant and objective manner
they have clue about what they are doing is critical for the public good.
It cannot just be buyer beware and go figure it out on your own because
we live in a highly transient society and we do not have the luxury of
getting to know who is good and who is bad by letting the market
organically take care of it. The 1700s are well past and that does not
work. People who like to cut corners and do whatever it takes to make a
buck, even at the expense of life, are everywhere and will do massive
damage unless their activities are nipped in the bud.
I don't want a person cutting my hair who is going to butcher my hair,
or someone burying a relative of mine who is going to care for th body
improperly, I don't want an unqualified lawyer or doctor either. The
US education system needs to be refocused on having education and
credentialing as an integrated program in all professional areas.
I strongly feel that in todays highly technical world that there are
very few jobs that are able to be done by people who are not highly
educated, trained and skilled through concurrent apprenticeship.
Catastrophes have happened when unqualified people do work. I have seen
unskilled workers do real damage to homes. For example, I had a truly
certified duct cleaning company do work for me recently and it was good
and right, when I had uncertified people do the work in the bad old days
it was a disaster and they even left junk in the vents that made things
worse. Again, if our academic institutions are forced to prepare
people for jobs and forced to come into the highly technical world of
the 21st century we will be the better for it.
If you go to this link you can see how formal medical education and
licensing is relatively new but we consider it indispensable today.
http://bulletin.facs.org/2013/07/100-years-of-surgical-education/ NO one
would allow themselves to be operated on by an uneducated and doctor
that is not board certified , but just 100 years ago, there were no real
qualifications for doctors and the society accepted unnecessary medical
malpractice as just a fact of life. We will not stand for this now.
Therefore, progress demands continually rising standards and rigorous
enforcement. The Wild West needs to be consigned to history, not made a
blueprint for the future.
You know very we that if we have cybersecurity malpractice today it
could result in a catastrophic failure in operational technology where
real physical damage and loss of life on a massive scale could easily
take place. Triton is a prime example.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613054/cybersecurity-critical-infrastructure-triton-malware/What does our US Congress do? They steer clear of it and do not do
their job, refer to:
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3365239/congress-steers-clear-of-industrial-control-systems-cybers...All the benefits of modern life and the wonderful and life saving
technology, including the ability to have a fantastic infrastructure
that puts power and knowledge at our fingertips, comes with the high
price of everyone being asked to go to a much higher level and not to
just do what they feel like doing. I was not even 40 years ago, when i
graduated college, that having a BS degree put you in the top 10% of
educated people in the country, today a BS degree is expected and if you
do not have that or you are not licensed in a trade, then you are really
struggling. This link shows the historical trends and outlines the fact
of how critical advanced education is to the health of the economy
https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-educationI am for transformational change in the way we do business world wide so
that we come into the 21st Century and prepare for the 22nd Century.
If we do not do that in the US, the Chinese and other forward looking
countries will and we, the US, will be left in the dust bin of history.
--
Frank Mayer, CISSP
Profile at profile:
https://community.isc2.org/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1334307903"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion
and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning
will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and
crimes from society." Benjamin Franklin
Respectfully,
Francis (Frank) Mayer, CISSP EMERITUS
