[defense]

Anyone doing anything involving creating / educating / developing managers specifically for the cybersecurity industry? Or just promoting technologists into management positions for which they have neither training nor experience?
Thank you in advance for any info.
Rick

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[kjoyce]

SANS offers a Security Leadership Essentials course for Managers, a course in Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership, and a GLSC Security Leadership certification. Many universities have been adding Cybersecurity leadership courses to their curriculum as well.
Harvard has a short course on “Managing Risk in the Information Age” geared toward business leaders. Purdue University, Florida Tech, Colorado Technical University all offer degrees in Cybersecurity Management. Syracuse University offers a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, George Mason offers an MS degree in Management of Secure Information Systems, and the University of Southern California offers a Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering.

[gabitu]

That’s a very good question Rick, I don’t think there’s a definitive answer for this. As kjoyce said, we can send our people to Cybersecurity short courses or they can pursue a formal education degree but at the end of the day all that matters is the engagement and the passion for working in Cybersecurity management. Anybody can become a Cybersecurity manager, obviously will need to have the technical skills as a foundation and these skills can be acquired thru courses, but the essential ingredient is the passion for this field, this is something what she/he will make them happy to do for work.

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