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Chartership and Professional Titles
The UK Cyber Security Council are currently piloting chartership and the associated professional titles of Associate and Principal. As the only organisation able to Charter cyber security professionals as individuals, our work piloting the 16 specialisms is of incredible benefit to those currently working within cyber security, or hoping to in the future.
Why apply for a professional title? What's in it for you?
Below we have detailed the benefits for you and your career:
- Provide confidence and assurance of your knowledge and skills to employers, clients, and the public
- Prove credibility with peers, improve your career prospects and your employability
- Provide proof that your professional skills have been acquired in a work-based environment – with critical awareness
- Enhance your CV meaning greater opportunity for career progression and increasing earning potential
- Demonstrate that you are working to achieve the cyber security needs of today and the aspirations of tomorrow
- Act as a guarantee of your commitment to professional standards such as the Council’s code of conduct, practice, and ethics
- Prove an ongoing commitment to continuous professional development to ensure your expertise and competence evolves, is up to date and relevant
- Indicate that your competence and commitment is rigorously peer-reviewed
- Align your experience and expertise in your specialism of cyber security to a nationally recognised standard of competence
- Demonstrate that you belong to a network of respected and prestigious cyber security specialists
Read more about our current programme to pilot the professional titles of Associate, Principal and Chartered here.
