CRESTCon 2023: CREST President, Rowland Johnson

In our second podcast from CRESTCon Europe 2023, we catch up with Rowland Johnson, CREST President.

CREST is a non profit organisation focused on building standards in cyber. This includes accreditation of companies and certification of individual cybersecurity professionals.

The cybersecurity sector faces a number of challenges: professionalisation, improving diversity, dealing with a stubborn skills shortage and the potential, and potential threats, of AI.

So how does the industry — and the organisations it serves — move from what Johnson describes as a “market failure” to a collaborative world based on a network of trust?

And how can cybersecurity professionals harness technology to do more?

Interview by Stephen Pritchard