Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is about enhancing your skills and knowledge to stay current and competent. The cyber security industry moves fast, and keeping pace requires professional development.

It doesn’t matter whether you are new to the profession or a seasoned expert. Keeping up to date is an essential part of being competent and maintaining a CPD record is a good way of evidencing how you are doing that.

All CIISec members are encouraged to record their learning and development activity – whether gained through CIISec, another organisation, or self-directed – over the membership year. If you hold a professional title of registration with UK Cyber Security Council then CPD is mandatory. Failure to submit CPD records is likely to result in the loss of professional title and removal from the UK Cyber Security Council’s register.

To make CPD recording straightforward, intuitive and interactive, CIISec members will have access to Trail via the Member Area. Trail is modern professional development platform developed by cyber security professionals. Members submit their CPD and manage evidence, certifications and objectives through a single web and mobile application, with AI-assisted logging.

By maintaining a record of your CPD activities, you can reflect on your career as well as identify and build upon your strengths. CIISec is committed to providing learning, volunteering, assessing, and networking opportunities to members, which carry CPD recognition.

Members can find out more about CPD requirements, and Trail, by signing into the Member Area.