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Ross Bradley, a man who spent 15 years working for Newcastle City Council dealing with parking fines, gave one of the best ever performances in the globally acknowledged GIAC I.T. security qualification.
The SANS Cyber Academy set out to address a shortage of cyber skills in the UK by finding talent with cyber skills and turning them into working professionals, even if they do not have the necessary experience. So far, it has managed to put three students with potential through two months of intense training. The trainees were chosen from more than 25,000 prospects.
Bradley said that he was cautious with regards to quitting his job and joining the academy, as he saw that others on the programme were forensics professionals.
Kate Booth left her role as university lecturer to join the programme after achieving an excellent score in the test.
Booth said:
“I was always interested in maths and science when I was at school and my parents gave me a lot of encouragement to do what I was interested in, but we need to do more as a country to support women into cyber security.”
Booth went on to point out that the job is far from finished, but that such schemes can go some way to helping women break through.
The academy can only help a country that needs to be more aware and proactive in defending itself against cyber attacks, but SMEs play an important role in that too and it is hope that they will have the foresight to offer cyber security jobs to graduates of the programme in the future.
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