1. Broadband: Building Future Skills
for
National Security and Business Continuity
Kayode Yussuf
TINAPA 2013

2. Protocols

3. Table of Contents
Why do we need to build Cybersecurity skills?
How do we build these skills?
Who are the players involved in building these
skills?
Cybersecurity careers and skills

4. Why do we need to build Cybersecurity skills?
Courtesy: Cisco Systems

5. Why do we need to build Cybersecurity skills?

6. How do we build future skills?
Find X?
Government
Professional
Associations
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Individuals
Private
Sector

7. Role of Government is to build the
Cybersecurity Ecosystem by:
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Improving Education
Legislation
Mass enlightenment
Law enforcement
Judiciary
Policies (insurance, lawyers, education)
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)

8. Roles of Government
• Improve Education (Creative Commons licensing)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

9. Roles of Government (Cont’d)
• Legislation

10. Roles of Government (Cont’d)
• Law enforcement

11. Roles of Government (Cont’d)
• Judiciary

12. Roles of Government (Cont’d)
• Policies (insurance, lawyers, education)
• Mass enlightenment
‘Security is everybody’s business’

13. Roles of Government (Cont’d)
• Support building of a Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT)

14. Role of Professional Associations
(ISPON, NIRA, ATCON, CPN, NCS etc)
• Serve as lobbyists for the National Cybersecurity Bill
• Organize Competitions
• Mentor young professionals
• Research and Development
• Facilitate PPP
• Encourage local content software development
• Mass enlightenment
• Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)

15. Role of Industry
• Train staff
• Design Security Policies
• Sponsor Research and Development
• Mentor young professionals
• Have security policies for their organizations
• Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)

16. Roles of Individual
• Be conscious
• Learn

17. Careers
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Incident and Threat Managers
Forensics Experts
Security auditors
Risk Analysts and Managers
Policy Makers and Strategists
Operations and Security Management
Cybersecurity Education, Training and Awareness
Security Research
Child Online Protection Counselors
Cyber-risk insurance experts
Lawyers specializing in Internet crime & data protection

18. Skills that can be built
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Information Security Crime Investigator
Forensics Expert
Web Penetration Tester
Application Penetration Tester
Incident Responder
Malware Analyst
Network Security Engineer
Security Operations Center Analyst
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Analyst

19. ‘Little drops of water…… makes a mighty ocean

20. Thank you for listening
Kayode Yussuf
08029730059
Kayusyussuf@yahoo.com