Teaching the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals
- Nasir Memon for The Conversation September 14th, 2016
- Source: https://theconversation.com/teaching-the-next-generation-of-cybersecurity-professionals-64475
Each morning seems to bring new reports of hacks, privacy breaches, threats to national defense or our critical infrastructure and even shutdowns of hospitals. As the attacks become more sophisticated and more frequently perpetrated by nation-states and criminal syndicates, the shortage of defenders only grows more serious: By 2020, the cybersecurity industry will need 1.5 million more workers than will be qualified for jobs.
In 2003, I founded Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) with a group of students, with the simple goal of attracting more engineering students to our cybersecurity lab.