A structured exploration of how cybersecurity professionalisation unfolded in Australia, analyzing the arguments, tracing the decisions, institutions, and pressures that shaped its trajectory.
After months of digging - investigations, confidential conversations, FOI requests - I can finally lay out a comprehensive, end-to-end, documented account of...
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The evidence is now on record, drawn directly from the government’ own grant. It confirms what many suspected: professionalisation raises costs, slows workfo...
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I swear by Almighty God that I will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In 2022, I joined a working group organised by a US governme...
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In this essay, I use open-source intelligence to highlight why it’s so important that the professionalisation grant is set up with well-defined boundaries th...
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AustCyber promised to professionalise cybersecurity, took public money, and delivered nothing. Now, the same actors return under a new banner, asking for mor...
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In this essay, I analyze selected texts on professionalisation to expose the power structures they sustain. My intent is twofold: to invite those shaping the...
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Professionalisation should stand on its own merits — not on the illusion that it will prevent the next fraud. If we build professionalisation on that fantasy...
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Professionalisation was explored, revisited, and reconsidered. AISA’s journey reflects not opposition, but the careful weighing of complex questions over tim...
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A man faked his way into cybersecurity leadership — not because the system lacked rules, but because no one cared to check his credentials. Professionalisati...
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When six organisations out of 220 steer government policy, the question is not whether professionalisation is necessary — but whether it is legitimate.
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Professionalisation is haunted by spectres: contradictory evidence, uncertain promises, unresolved concerns, lingering doubts, incomplete solutions, false cl...
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The cybersecurity industry is being overtaken by a push for professionalisation. Its proponents justify this push as a necessary step to better protect the p...
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Professionalisation is both the mechanism that enforces an economic model and the ideology that justifies it. In this essay, I set out to analyse the Grant O...
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