Dr. Eugene Spafford Podcast Transcript

Education and Certifications
Job-Seekers

RICHARD SWART: Good to talk to you today. Could you provide us an overview of what’s happening in cyber security education and research in the United States right now? How good of a job are our universities doing?

DR. EUGENE SPAFFORD: Overall I think we’re not doing very well. We’re doing better than we were but there are still a lot of gaps available. This is particularly well stated in a very recent report from the National Research Council that’s entitled “A Safer and More Secure Cyberspace” that was released just about two weeks ago. And their observation echo what has been said and reports and what many of us have been saying for some time: basically we don’t have enough people who are in the pipeline when who are learning about cyber security. We don’t have it mainstreamed enough in the regular computing curriculum, and we don’t have the resources in place to really be looking at a broad enough variety of both near-term and long-term issues.

> Read entire article (log in required - registration is free)