We all understand the benefits which include: the elevation of security to a professional standing; providing a professional development journey; facilitating a measure of certainty to regulators; incentivising others to develop. But do current accreditations achieve these laudable aims? And what about the pitfalls? After all, not all certification programs are created equal, so how can interested stakeholders, and especially non security specialists, assess what is credible? Only some accreditations follow a standard and are periodically reviewed by an external standards organisation, how essential is that? What about costs, does that create inequalities and lead to disadvantage? Given the wide knowledge base of security, how can stakeholders be assured that the accreditation is based on the best, most comprehensive or relevant parts of it? Do we need them anyway, plenty of successful security professionals don’t bother, what does that tell us? This webinar will discuss:

The importance and relevance of security accreditations
The drawbacks to security accreditations and how they can be managed
What the future of security accreditations should look like

Panellists:
Greg Hurd – Director, Security Programmes (Canada)
Dana Adams – Director Security Services at TELUS International (Canada)
David Cresswell MSc – Director at International Security Management Institute (UK)

A video and summary of this session is available here: https://www.theospas.com/2021/04/28/the-benefits-and-pitfalls-of-security-accreditations-do-they-serve-security-professionals-well/

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