{"id":240,"date":"2015-10-14T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cybersecurity.bellevue.edu\/?p=240"},"modified":"2021-08-30T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:09:12","slug":"the-best-of-times-and-worst-of-times-in-security-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.bellevue.edu\/index.php\/2015\/10\/14\/the-best-of-times-and-worst-of-times-in-security-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The best of times and worst of times in security education"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Note: This article was originally posted on the ‘Educating\u00a0Next-Gen Cybersecurity Leaders<\/a>‘ blog on CSOOnline.com.]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the best of times. It was the worst of times.\u201d No, I\u2019m not talking about Dickens\u2019 A Tale of Two Cities. I\u2019m talking about the Internet Age where we have powers beyond our ancestor\u2019s imagination literally at our fingertips. We can work, play, and communicate from almost anywhere and anytime. The flip side is the dangers where people, systems, and data are breached on an all-too-frequent basis. Since you\u2019re reading this, none of it is new to you. What may be new is how Education Technology is rapidly evolving to meet the needs of both students and industry, which epitomizes the best of times and the worst of times.<\/p>\n

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As a security professional, you may not be aware of all that\u2019s happening in the world of Education Technology (#EdTech) and how it affects the security community. Teachers are using a wide variety of tech tools from smartphones and tablets to Internet applications like Google Docs, Twitter, Edmodo, Udemy, etc. Classrooms are being flipped to be student-focused rather than the traditional \u2018sage on the stage\u2019 lecture. The cloud has reached the classroom to where students learn from almost anywhere, anytime from any computing platform. Academic institutions at all levels (K-12, colleges, and universities) are scrambling to keep up with the rapid pace of technology.<\/p>\n

Study after study shows we\u2019re lacking combatants on the cyber battlefield to take up both offensive and defensive roles. Steve Morgan\u2019s Cybersecurity Business Report<\/a> validates this need in the posts Cybersecurity job market to suffer severe workforce shortage<\/em><\/a> and Worldwide cybersecurity market continues its upward trend<\/em><\/a>. He offers some solutions such as, \u201cparents sending their kids to cybersecurity school<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cgetting a Master\u2019s Degree in Cybersecurity<\/a>.\u201d However, there are underlying issues preventing these from being complete solutions.<\/p>\n