“…In question is the educational and academic component that requirestransformationtoincreasethenumberofcybersecuritypersonnel.Researchers andpractitionersidentifiedthefollowingareasthatinfluencecertifyingexaminations: technology changes, threat landscape, industry standards, workforce requirements, andgovernmentandregulations (Knapp,Maurer,&Plachkinova,2017).Thesystems areinterdependentofothercomponents;therefore,modifyingonecomponentcould impactothersystems.EldardiryandCladwell(2015)postulatethatanysystemorthe linkagesbetweencomponentsaresusceptibletovulnerabilitiesorweaknessesbased onchangessuchasthethreatenvironmentisdynamicandcapricious(Keely,2017), resultinginchangestosystemcalculus.Fromamacroperspective,asorganizations adapttothethreatenvironment,itincreasesthedemandforcybersecurityprofessionals inwhichthereisarecognizablescarcityofcyberpersonnel (Cobb,2016).Thepaucity ofcybersecurityprofessionalsimpactsthesystemandinducescomplexity.Acommon practice is for organizations to leverage new technology; however, information technology professionals struggle to maintain pace with the technological changes (Eldardiry&Cladwell,2015).Byusingthecomplexitytheoryperspective,according toScioli(2017),onecancomprehendthebehaviorofcomplexsystemsandassociated components. Thecomplexitytheorywasusedbyscientiststounderstandmathematicalconstruct to determine system behavior (Scioli, 2017). Researchers indicate that complexity leadership is capable of initiating scholarship and education, modernism, and transformation of institutions and systems (Geer-Frazier, 2014).…”