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Cybersecurity skills in South Africa – An IITPSA W Cape Chapter Event – 23 August 2018
August 23, 2018 @ 17:30 - 18:30
Overview
This presentation reviews South African cybersecurity training, considering the perceived high demand for such skills. It presents an analysis of job requirements in this area, based on a recent analysis of the Western Cape market. Finally, there is a discussion of initiatives around an international cybersecurity education programme and South Africa’s involvement in this process.
Speaker
Jacques Ophoff is a senior lecturer in the department of Information Systems at UCT. His research covers a variety of topics within information systems security, with a specific focus on behavioural (human) aspects of information security. He supervises a Security & Privacy Research Group with more than a dozen active research students and has over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Jacques holds a PhD in Information Technology from Nelson Mandela University.
Delegate Fees
IITPSA, ISACA, Women in IT & ISC2 Members: No charge
UCT staff and students: No charge
Non-members: R60
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