All - supporters and dissenters: The plain fact is that we quibble about $125 dollars (US), however, the plain facts of the truth are these: The cybercrime business is making 6 Trillion Dollars per annum at the present time. They are laughing at us, making hay, whilst we gamble and cajole with our employers to see the light. We on the other according to statistics only invest 3.7 Trillion dollars per annum on supporting the security and privacy controls upon which Governance, Risk and Compliance depend upon to keep them financially viable.
In the bigger scheme of things, we are fighting a losing battle, so lets stop quibbling and put our energy; where it is required, fighting the cybercrime contingent and ensuring our skills are brought up to date, so that we can assist our respective organisations or companies bring full comprehensive people, processes and technology to bear to protect them.
If you look at the financial figures, this states, it would be more viable for cyber security professionals to change sides, and become corrupt. ISC2 provides a set of ethics, encompassed within a global central register, which like the Medical Doctor's Hippocratic oath, we can be struck off, and exposed as corrupt security practitioners, which affects our ability to work, and provide a clean set of credentials etc.
To me, personally, I would rather organisations, wake up, realise the value they have within their fully certified security professionals within ISC2, who are prepared to publicly state we are bound by the ethics of the society, however, it my duty to do my best for the organisation I support, to do my best to combat the increasing tide of attacks, incidents, - however, I need the support of the organisation to do this.
We want to be the ones the organisations, turn to provide objective advice and trust to manage, protect and handle situations calmly in the hope we can reduce the inevitable impact - when it occurs, which as we all know is not a question of when, it is more of a question of how, where and what.
There is insufficient security practitioners to deal with the tide, so lets turn our attention to assisting others wishing to get involved and commence their careers in an area, which just keeps on challenging and increasing in complexity.
Whether you own an Eagle, Phoenix, Dragon or any other transportation means, mount up and lets get on with the battle or just get out of the kitchen, if it is too hot for you. Lets root out the internal corruption and give the cybercrime contingent a black eye at least, to make them think twice before tackling us.
Together we are stronger, resilient or we fall and fail divided.
Regards
Caute_cautim
