107. The rise of micro cyber credentials with Naveen Chilamkurti

Claire is joined by La Trobe scholar Naveen Chilamkurti as they cover some of the amazing work La Trobe is doing to welcome people into the cyber industry through great micro credentialing programmes. They discuss what micro credentials are, the value of this way of study, and how employers are valuing University qualifications such as micro credentials. He also shared what academia are currently working on, including crypto and 6G. Naveen is currently the Associate Dean (International Partnerships), SCEMS Professor and Head of the Cybersecurity discipline, previously the Director of International Programs since 2017. He serves as the Technical Editor of the highly ranked IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Naveen has published more than 330 journal and conference papers, including IEEE and ACM Transactions and is active in editing and authoring 9 books with Elsevier, Springer, IGI-Global and NOVA publishers. Naveen has successfully attracted 20 research grants since 2000 to support PhD Scholarships, fellowships, and travel grants for research collaboration and in 2012 and 2018, he was awarded a research fellowship to work with IIT Kanpur and IIT Hyderabad. Links: Website For the full episode transcript, please visit our website The Security Collective podcast is proudly brought to you in partnership with LastPass, the leading password manager.