Licencing of IT security consultants revisited

[Q G Campbell]

> From: Nigel Hickson [mailto:nigelhickson@compuserve.com]=20
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> Lets not get carried away concerning CESG and It security=20
> consultants.  We
> (CBI) may not have managed to get the amendment we wanted but=20
> we did get a firm statement in Hansard that "IT security=20
> industry will not be licensed under the Bill".  Clarke also=20
> confirmed that consultation (by DTI) would be about=20
> "confidence rasing measures".  DTI told me that this=20
> essentially limited anything they may do (after consultation)=20
> to Codes etc).  We will fight to ensure that there is NO=20
> requirement for consultant to be registered by CESG.

I for one am happy to acknowledge with thanks the efforts of the CBI
here. I welcome the CBI's commitment to fight any future requirement for
IT consultants to be registered by CESG [and any other Government
body?].=20

I am still suspicious about the Government's longer term agenda in the
this area and am only partly reassured by Clarke's words.=20

They are enough, however, to make me feel that my own professional
activities in IT security within my employing organisation is under no
immediate threat.=20

Whether others on this list can feel so sanguine should soon become
evident.  :-)

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Quentin
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