IFIP IP3 Thematic Workshop at WSIS 2021
Building Cyber Resilience with a Professional workforce
Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 13:00-14:00 CEST
How to Protect infrastructure, privacy, & consumers, and facilitate global skills transfer.
Cyber-Security track at WSIS.
Introduction
The UN Secretary-General in his Jun 2020 Digital Cooperation Roadmap: Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation (un.org) articulates the importance of many facets on digital cooperation including on:
- Digital Capacity-Building
- Digital Trust And Security
- Artificial Intelligence
This workshop will highlight activities in different regions to build capacity in Digital Trust & Security for cyber-resilience in a world that went digital almost overnight. We will explore how Skills Frameworks, Bodies of Knowledge, and Quality Assurance are developing to build capacity in Cybersecurity, creating a resilient professional workforce.
Speakers
IP3 Thematic Workshop Panellists
| Speaker Name | Country | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Moira de Roche, Chair IFIP IP3 | South Africa | Session Moderator |
| Steve Furnell Chair IFIP Technical Committee 11, University of Nottingham | UK | Building a Professional Cyber Security Workforce: Recognising Knowledge, Experience and Competence. |
| Fred van Noord, Chair Dutch Association for Information Security Professionals (PViB) | Netherlands | The realisation of Cyber Security education in the Netherlands that based on job profiles in the European e-competence framework e-CF |
| Anthony Wong IFIP Vice-President | Australia | How to Protect infrastructure, privacy, & consumers, and facilitate global skills transfer |
| Robert Weisman CEO, Build the Vision, Engineer in Residence & Professor, University of Ottawa | Canada | The criticality of enterprise and system architectures, especially with the internet of things, to cyber-resilience |
Presentations