IBMs cybersecurity division has hired nearly 2,000 professionals to its security team since 2015. The influx of credentials is causing plenty of confusion for students, employers, policymakers and certifying organizations. It’s also eroding trust in the credentialing industry, says a group of more than 100 national organizations to make credentials and badges easier to understand, use and interconnect. It used to be that most of these [credentials] would be awarded by colleges and universities, but not anymore.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3193097/making-sense-of-cybersecurity-qualifications.html