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tcritchley07
tcritchley07,
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2/6/2021 | 1:10:47 PM
Interest Isnt The Only Problem
Does your daughter have a solid underpinning IT education. With the WW shortage of cybersecurity skills to fill the 3.5m positions I find the lack of response puzzing too. Might I ask where the degree was obtained?

Cybersec is not a silo subject; it needs knowlege of other aspects of IT, such as networks. monitors and some peronal ideas about the analysis of network traffic to sort th good guys form the bad. Alo, I suggest she looks at RINA (Recursive Internet Architecture), bne up and sock it to them; it is 100% faster and more secure that the curent , poorly desinged nternet and the products which support it. Can help here but not in the detal.

Terry
Prmcgrat
Prmcgrat,
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2/4/2021 | 3:02:27 PM
Interest Isnt The Only Problem
While I agree that there may be limited interest in the field from our young women, this is not the only barrier they face. My daughter obtained a cybersecurity degree with a desire to pursue this line of work a year ago, and has yet to receive a call back for any of the cyber positions that she has applied for. I applaud your efforts at Blackberry, but I am not certain that the rest of the industry is as forward thinking.
tcritchley07
tcritchley07,
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2/3/2021 | 2:05:22 PM
Females in Cybersecurity
I devised a survey for female student aged 14-18 on why they didn't take up compting studies at school. The top reasons were it is boring, needs to much maths and is geekish, a male preserve, The 'computing' in question is computer science (CS) which today bears little resemblance to what the workplace wants. You cannot push females of this persuasion directly into cybersecurity from a standing start. They need a comprehensive, pragmatic underpinning computing knowledge befoe moving to specialisation. The current underpinning (CS) is inadequate and they cannot pick up cybersecurity without this (non-existent) base any more than a medic can become a heart specialist without going through general medical school first.

This approach to specialisation is a huge mistake, made by people who do not understand the current fast moving and evolving computing scenario today. Can demonstrate this if necessary.

Terry Critchley  [email protected] with 50-year notches on my IT gun.


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