An a presentation that provides an overview of cybersecurity opportunities and pathways for aspiring cybersecurity candidates

1. A Career in Cybersecurity – an
Australian perspective; outlook,
opportunities, education framework
and pathways

2. Agenda
Cybersecurity Outlook
• Australian 2019 Security Breach Summary
• Cybersecurity Employment Outlook – 2017, 2018 & 2019
• Cybersecurity Global and Local Demand Outlook
Opportunities
• Cybersecurity Opportunities by Segment
• Cybersecurity employment by segment, state & NICE workforce categories
• 2020 Cybersecurity Job Report by LinkedIn
• The National Strategy Supporting Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
• Qualities sort by Employers in Cybersecurity candidates
• NICE – Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
Pathways
• Cybersecurity Career pathways and supporting tools
• Comptia Certification to NICE mapping
Starting The Cybersecurity Journey
• How to Start Your Cybersecurity Learning Journey
• Digital Apprenticeship program
• Cybersecurity Traineeship Incentives for Employers
• ASWN – supporting women in cybersecurity

3. Summary of
Australian
Threat
Landscape
Source: Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy - A call for views, 2019, Commonwealth of Australia

4. Source: Australia IT spending to reach $94B in 2019, ARNET, 2019 @ https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/660273/australia-it-spending-reach-94b-2019/
• Almost half of Australian businesses have experienced cyber attacks in the
last year, a rise of 15 per cent over the previous year.
• According to research by Telstra, the number of attacks in Australia stood
above the global average by roughly 10 per cent and marginally higher
than the Asia Pacfic average of 45 per cent.
• Almost 90 per cent of these claimed their security breaches went
undetected, a rise of 12 per cent since 2018.
• web application attacks and incidents caused by employee human error
accounted for 38 and 37 per cent respectively of businesses that had
reported a security incident
• Gartner expects increased growth for the infrastructure software segment
in the near-term, particularly in integration platform as a service (iPaaS)
and application platform as a service (aPaaS).
Summary of
Australian
Threat
Landscape

5. Why – The
Cybersecurity
Opportunities
2017 outlook
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

6. Why – The
Cybersecurity
Opportunities
2018 outlook
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber
• Cyber security in Australia employs around 20,500 people
• Total expenditure is A$5.0 billion in 2018
• A$3.9 billion spent on external cyber security 2018
• A$1 billion on their internal cyber security functions in 2018
• Small but fast-growing sector
• From 2018 to 2026, external cyber security spending in Australia is likely to
increase more than twice as fast (7.9 per cent annual growth) as broader
IT
• Australia may need almost 17,000 additional cyber security
workers by 2026 for the sector to harness its full growth potential.
• It is expected that the number of cyber graduates could quadruple from
around 500 per year in 2017 to about 2,000 a year in 2026,
• This still leaves a significant shortfall of workers in the medium-term.

7. Why – The
Cybersecurity
Opportunities
2019 outlook
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

8. Why – The Cybersecurity Opportunities by Segment
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

9. Why – The Cybersecurity Opportunities by Segment
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

10. The Cybersecurity Employment by Segment
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

11. The Cybersecurity Employment by States

12. The Cybersecurity Workforce by NICE Categories
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber

13. Why – The Cybersecurity Opportunities in 2020
Source:2020 Emerging Jobs Report, LinkedIn
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35% 34% 34% 34% 33% 32%
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25% 24%
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14. Why – The Cybersecurity Opportunities in 2020
Source:2020 Emerging Jobs Report Australia, LinkedIn

15. Why – National Strategy Developing Cybersecurity
Opportunities
Source: AUSTRALIA’S CYBER SECURITY SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS PLAN 2019 UPDATE, AustCyber
Australian Cybersecurity Roadmap Launched in November 2018 by the Australian Minister for Industry,
Science and Technology, the Hon Karen Andrews
Goals Established by AustCyber
(1) grow an Australian cyber security ecosystem,
(2) export Australia’s cyber security to the world and
(3) make Australia the leading centre for cyber education.
Austrade CEO Dr Stephanie Fahey signed a Collaboration Plan with the CEO of AustCyber Michelle Price in
Ausgust 2019, recognising shared objectives and a strategic alignment to grow the Australian cyber security
sector internationally

16. Why – National Strategy Developing Cybersecurity
Opportunities
Source: Cyber Security - A Roadmap to enable growth opportunities for Australia, CSIRO Futures, 2018. National Cyber Security
Strategy website : https://cybersecuritystrategy.homeaffairs.gov.au/a-cyber-smart-nation
Cyber Security Industry Roadmap brings together the expertise and networks of CSIRO and AustCyber, the Australian Cyber
Security Growth Network, to recognise that common vision and map out the road to success for our cyber security sector

17. Cyber Candidate Qualities – Analytical Mindset, Curious and Detailed
Source: AustCyber - https://www.austcyber.com/educate/career-paths-and-opportunities

18. The Cybersecurity Careers Framework - NICE
Source: NIST Special Publication 800-181, Ausgust 2017
NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) - that establishes a taxonomy and common
lexicon that describes cyber security work and workers irrespective of where or for whom the
work is performed. Is a NIST framework, NIST Special Publication 800-181
Recommended for application in the public, private, and academic sectors
Describes:
• Categories (7): A high-level grouping of common cyber security functions.
• Specialty Areas (33): Distinct areas of cyber security work.
• Work Roles (52): The most detailed groupings of cyber security work. This includes specific
knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform tasks in a work role.

19. The Cybersecurity Workforce Framework - NICE
https://www.austcyber.com/resources/dashboards/NICE-workforce-framework

20. The Cybersecurity Careers Framework - NICE
Source: NIST Special Publication 800-181, Ausgust 2017

27. RTO Number 51681

29. https://www.cyberseek.org/index.html#

30. RTO Number 51681
CompTIA's Interactive Certification mapping to NICE:
https://www.comptia.org/content/tools/comptia-and-the-
national-initiative-for-cybersecurity-education

31. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Cyber Security Talent Report - Addressing the Skills Gap - Advice for employers and aspiring cyber security professionals in
Australia & New Zealand, Hays Recruitment, 2019.
Basic, Intermediate to Advanced

32. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Source: https://www.dta.gov.au/help-and-advice/learning-and-development/start-your-digital-career-
government/digital-apprenticeship-program
How to Start your Cyber Security Learning

33. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Source: https://acfips.org.au/Traineeships/cyber-security
Cyber Security Traineeship for Employers

34. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Source: https://www.austcyber.com/news-events/tafecyber-initiative
Cyber Security TAFE Cert IV. Education

35. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Source: https://www.austcyber.com/resources/dashboards/education-map
Cyber Security Education Offering

36. How to Start
Your
Cybersecurity
Career
Source: https://www.awsn.org.au/#our-mission
Supporting Women in Cybersecurity

37. Thank You