Here’s a list of companies that have something in common — something bad. Target, JP Morgan, Dairy Queen, eBay, Sony. They’re all companies that have been hacked.
Given all the security breaches lately, it’s no surprise there is huge demand for cybersecurity employees. Companies say they cannot find workers to fill the jobs. An after-school program in Silicon Valley is trying get more people interested in the career, and it’s starting young.
James Estrella is sitting in a classroom full of fourth graders learning how to code. He points to the laptop to show me an error he made. It’s a bug he said, and that’s bad. A bug can break the whole program, or worse he says, it could let someone hack into it. “It’s weird,” Estrella said, “Only one tiny little mistake and then it affects everything.”
The after school course was developed by nearby San Jose State University in partnership with a local Catholic Charities program called Community Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL). It was designed to encourage an interest in cybersecurity that might someday turn into a job.
In the class, students are typing up code and fixing errors they made. Along the way they are getting introduced to the basic concepts of cybersecurity. The instructor, David Macias, says the kids have quickly realized how much of the world around them is hackable. For the full article click here
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