Cyber-attacks have increasingly become the chosen method of attack against the United States by enemies of our country. Yet despite this, our efforts to educate students to prepare for careers as computer experts are severely lacking. Our schools and universities must embrace change immediately to begin preparing more of our young people to fill the roles needed to defend our national security from cyber-attacks from threats coming from China, Russia, North Korea, and other countries. More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in our country are unfilled, and the number of postings for such jobs has increased 74 percent in the last five years. This is expected to grow another 53 percent by 2018.
Our children must be introduced to computers, and getting comfortable with using them, in the earliest grades, including in our elementary and middle schools. Just 29 states allow high school students to count computer science classes toward their graduation requirements. This needs to change immediately so more high school students will complete computer classes and better prepare to study computer science at the university level. While only 42,969 computer science students graduated last year, there were 559,321 computer jobs posted nationally.
Most universities are also failing in this area, earning a grade of ‘F’ in cybersecurity educations, according to aCloudPassage study, which found that only three computer science programs among the top 121 universities in the country require students to complete three or more cybersecurity courses to graduate. For the full article click here
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