Professional associations identify market demands, and address professional skill gaps by providing members opportunities to learn and hone competencies, and bring critical value to their organization.  As cyber threats continue to pose significant risks to organizations, they are forced to keep pace with advances in technology to protect their critical and sensitive business assets and information.  This requires skilled practitioners across IT disciplines.  As the interface between business and technology, the BA is a key contributor to fortifying an organization's security posture.  The BA Certification in Cyber Security formally qualifies BA's to fulfill this role, and prepares our BA community to meet this ever-growing professional demand.  This presentation tells the story of how a chance meeting at BA 2017, brought a team of professionals with right mix of skills together to develop and launch this BABOK extension certification.

Learning Objectives:

• The process of taking a body of technical knowledge and transforming it into a certifiable BA capability to meet industry demands; from creation of the syllabus, development of learning content, to launch of the certification exam.
• As a collective, with support and collaboration from our professional associations, employers, and business partners, we can leverage our experience and knowledge to evolve our practice, strengthen our capabilities, and grow our profession.
• How the role of the BA in translating technical content to a format that is understood by the audience, was a key competency requirement for this project.