Embedding standards and pathways across the cyber profession by 2025
The government is consulting on proposals to develop the cyber security profession and ensure the UK Cyber Security Council has the powers it needs.
The cyber security profession is still in development and draws upon on multiple specialisms. It has now reached a level of maturity where it needs its own identity, shape and form. To help develop the profession, following an earlier consultation, the government funded the creation of the UK Cyber Security Council which launched in March 2021. The government sees this body as the authority on the cyber profession, bringing together the existing work of professional and certifications organisations in this space, to meaningfully communicate and assure consistency across standards and pathways.
This consultation asks for views on how best to ensure the UK Cyber Security Council is suitably empowered to be the voice of the profession, and to tackle the scale and diversity of the skills shortage which the government and industry wants to address.
Read more in the press notice.
Read the Written Ministerial Statement.
This consultation is being published alongside a consultation on proposals for legislation to improve cyber resilience. It is part of the government’s £2.6 billion National Cyber Strategy 2022 to protect and promote the UK in cyber space.