BILANG depensa kontra sa hacking sa mga opisina ng gobyerno at pribadong sektor, isinusulong ni Congresswoman Kristine Alexie Besas Tutor ng Bohol Province (Third District) ang pagpaparami ng mga cybersecurity specialists at malakihang capital investments.
Nasa dalawang daang tao lang kasi ang sertipikadong cybersecurity experts ng buong bansa, habang kapos na kapos pa ang IT imprastruktura ng bansa.
Targeted training and certification program na subsidized ng pamahalaan at katuwang ang mga unibersidad, kolehiyo, CHED, at TESDA, ang kabilang sa mga mungkahi Rep. Tutor na kasapi ng Committee on Information and Communications Technology sa Kamara.
Para naman sa mga cybersecurity infrastructure at mamahaling mga softwares, public-private partnerships at foreign technical assistance mula sa Asian Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank ang kailangan ayon kay Tutor.
Quick solution, ani Tutor, ang certification process. Ito rin ang sinasang-ayunang proseso ng IT industry sa halip na licensure examinations dahil nariyan na kasi ang mga standards, proseso, at mga institusyon na nagpapatupad ng certification, habang gagawin pa ang masusing sistema para sa cybersecurity licensure examinations.
“Having a licensure examination on cybersecurity will take much more time. The law and IRR would take about three or more years. Appointing the members of the cybersecurity professional board will take a year or two. Developing the licensure exam will take at least two to three years because it would be a new board exam. Board review and the first board exam will take another year. It would, therefore, take at least seven years until the first batch of cybersecurity board exam passers,” paliwanag ni Tutor.
“Certification courses can be rolled out quickly in a matter of months and would have graduates in less than a year, depending on their abilities upon joining training. The training can be conducted by state universities and colleges, private universities, and IT companies with the needed certification courses in the near term and later with degree programs,” dagdag pa ni Tutor.
Kung kailangan agad ng mga cybersecurity experts, suhestiyon rin ni Tutor na “some or all of the current 200 certified cybersecurity experts could be mobilized to teach. Trainees can be selected from recent and old graduates of IT, accounting, finance, and criminology degree programs.”
