In the first Impactful TechThe cycle of conferences and debates launched by IMMUNE Coding Institute brought together a total of four experts in the field of cybersecurity to analyse the problems presented by this discipline at a national and international level. Participating in the debate were Félix Barrio, Manager of Industry, R&D and Talent at INCIBE; Silvia Barrera, expert in cybersecurity and cybercrime; José Parada, CISO at Telefónica Digital and Beatriz Ruiz, Head of Global Human Resources People Culture at S21Sec.
The experts brought positions closer together and shared opinions about the current situation of cybersecurity in our country and the challenges that lie ahead, reaching different conclusions. The main one, the need to specialise professionals working in the area of cybersecurity with a double objective: to meet the current needs of the industry and to be able to face the security challenges in technologies such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence or Cloud.
A different ecosystem develops around each of these technologies, with different professional profiles and specific legislation applied. Taking into account the different particularities of each of the technologies, José Parada, CISO of Telefónica Digital, said that "cybersecurity is such a broad area that it is impossible to create an expert in cybersecurity", but that "training must be provided for each area of application, from regulations to coding, secure coding, hacking or critical infrastructure architecture".
Beatriz Ruiz, head of Global Human Resources People Culture at S21sec agreed with Parada's statement during the talk, adding that "professional profiles are very different and have very different interests, a coding profile does not expect to work in the regulatory area". In addition to a certain degree of specialisation, continuous training is required. As explained by Silvia Barrera, an expert in cybersecurity and cybercrime, "cybersecurity is a tough profession because you have to be constantly updated".
Soft Skills, just as necessary
As we have already seen, although the specialisation of cybersecurity experts is key to the sector, so are Soft Skills. In other words, the cybersecurity professional must also possess management skills, resilience, communication and know how to adapt to each situation. In the words of José Parada, "the more you have, the better", since Soft Skills are all good. To this, Beatriz Ruiz added that passion and vocation are equally important in this profession, in which workers "must be people with a very high ethical integrity" as they acquire knowledge about very sensitive matters and must know how to manage it in a concrete and correct way.
From IMMUNE Coding Institute, besides giving a complete training in computer science and technology, we work to help our students develop their maximum potential and Soft Skills, in collaboration with GeorgeTown University. Do you want to know more? Visit our websitewhere you can find more information about courses to boost your career in technology.
Talent attraction and retention
In order to try to minimise the shortfall of workers expected for the future, INCIBE, as Félix Barrio commented during Impactful Tech, is trying to "nourish the current demand with profiles that are already trained, and on the other hand we have developed activities that encourage younger people to join the cybersecurity sector". These activities have been divided, directing one line "to profiles with university education, engineers, telecoms, etc. and another line of activities that seek talent among those who have no training".
Role of women
Continuing with the need to attract and retain talent, the role of women in cybersecurity was discussed during Impactful Tech. As José Parada stated in the debate, "it is difficult to find women experts in cybersecurity, the ratio is one woman for every ten men". This figure is reinforced by a article by Elena HerraizPeople & Financial Manager at Entelgy Innotec Security, where he states that women represent only 11% of the cybersecurity industry workforce and, of these, only 2% are managers.
Parada went on to point out that, although there are not many women in the sector, those that there are "are excellent professionals because they are completely vocational, they are women who have had to develop in a man's world and fight for their role". To these words, Beatriz Ruiz added that "it is necessary to promote a general change of mentality, so that today's girls find examples of women who serve as a reference for them". To achieve this, initiatives such as Girls who codein the United States or Inspiring Girls in Spain.
Innovative training model
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