Are Colleges Teaching Real-World Cyber Security Skills? by Adi Shua SOC analysts must have a large amount of formal knowledge and the analytic abilities to derive actionable insights from the data collected by the company’s various security tools. Moreover, the analyst is expected to use human behavioral and business context to identify threats and make decisions about how to respond to keep the organization safe. However, most junior security staff enter the cybersecurity job market with only theoretical knowledge of…
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In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers by Emily DeRuy The Finns are pretty bemused by Americans’ preoccupation with whether to put iPads in every classroom. If a tablet would enhance learning, great. If it wouldn’t, skip it. Move on. The whole thing is a little tilting-at-windmills, anyway. Makes me wonder if the USA problem is one of politics and business. Are there forces aligned to privatize the US education system for financial gain? Thanks to kOoLiNuS for the…
Which society do you want your kids to live in?…
On a Friday morning in April, I strapped on a headset, leaned into a microphone, and experienced what had been described to me as a type of time travel to the future of higher education. ... The system had bugs—it crashed once, and some of the video lagged—but overall it worked well, and felt decidedly unlike a normal classroom. For one thing, it was exhausting: a continuous period of forced engagement, with no relief in the form of time when my…
[exif id="31380"] In the winter of 2011, a handful of software engineers landed in Boston just ahead of a crippling snowstorm. They were there as part of Code for America, a program that places idealistic young coders and designers in city halls across the country for a year. ~ Read the full version…
