Oh, you have to smile about the “industry” that is Cybersecurity. It is an area that has around 52 different job roles, but still we wrap it all up together as a single entity. On broadcast media and in conferences, you sometimes see people boosting their expertise, for their Cybersecurity experience. As it is an evolving area it is one area where those with little actual experience and knowledge boost themselves forward with profiles that don’t quite match reality.
The medical profession, for example, has long has had a history of individuals boosting their expertise, and this is one reason that academia has a strong peer review process in both promotions and for research publications. Through a peer-review process, someone who overpromotes their expertise is likely to be found out. But, as cybersecurity requires high levels of trustworthy knowledge, it is important that true experts are able to prove their viewpoints.
But things often get through, and the RSA conference yesterday posted this message:
It related to a blog and social media post which proposed that the flaws in TCP/IP could be solved with blockchain [here]:
