I fully agree...and although I am in the UK I am not a Cyber Commando...just a software engineer 😉

For too long has there been no entry barrier into IT and no driver for proper company lead training. Maybe if this was only the case for front end developers then appropriately qualified/trained/experienced application, enterprise and database developers as well as DBAs and infrastructure engineers could ensure that, at the very least, the corporate technical backbone and back office systems would be less vulnerable.

Will we know that the level of aggression has reached a certain threshold when ones own government forces a free market to enforce these standards? Will they claim that this is for professionalism reasons whereas others might believe that they are protecting the economy of the state?