UK.gov creates £500K fund to help universities teach cyber skills The UK government is putting up a £500,000 fund to develop cyber security skills within universities and colleges, essentially helping them construct innovative teaching methods to provide the skills needed to protect the UK from hackers, malware and other information security threats. The Higher Education Academy will …
Here's an idea, why not introduce rules that make it against the law to introduce something onto the big scary web that is insecure? Then businesses will have to invest in security and training.
Those 500k paid for students will just go to some other country that pays more for their talents. It's a bit like midwifery, do people actually know that when they finish their course there are Australian/NZ embassy people trying to recruit? I know this from a friend who completed the course at Salford Royal.
Terribly sorry if Universities are not churning out robotic fools purely for the use of the commercial sector.
Terribly sorry if Uni's want to EDUCATE people.
Terribly sorry if some students want to go to Uni just to LEARN and not become a company drone.
Sorry to be such a huge inconvenience to you.
Ps, R U Michael Gove (or his clone)?
Good. Universities are not for "training". If businesses want trained people they should either (a) train them; (b) pay for someone else to train them or (c) pay enough for trained people that it is worth those people training themselves.
In 12+ years commercial life I had one week of industry training, which they didn't even pay to let me get the certificate for.
In 1 month of my new education life I'm signed up to more commercial certification than I know what to do with.
If you want staff trained in something commercial, your business needs to spend the money on that commercial training. Don't expect the education sector to keep up with whatever the flavour of the month is. And don't expect your staff to stick around if they don't get the training you say you need them to have.
Universities are churning out bright kids who can learn new stuff, you need to point them at the stuff you need them to know.
Exactly. Almost all employers demands that you already have the skills that are acquired from working for that employer before that employer is prepared to employ you.
E: So, what experience do you have in programming micromedical monitoring software?
A: I've got a first in software engineering and did twelve months' placement writing automotive monitoring and management systems software.
E: So, you have *no* commercial experience in micromedical monitoring software? **** off.
As an actual student (gasp) but a mature student (early thirties). I have received excellent training from my Uni which is in partnership with Cisco. We have done alongside our computing degrees, Prince 2 approaches but mainly Linux modules, and the networking stuff is hands on. It's: configure this router with x, or that switch with y. Don't use the GUI you need to do it all via terminal. I don't know whether it's the education system or my particular lecturer who is superb, but I'd feel confident going into a junior networking role. As I intend to.
Exactly - we would be in much better shape if our universities concentrated on teaching students exactly what keys to press to make this year's model of a certain American router do the things required in the router maker's certification course.
Instead of wasting their time inventing anything new or educating students to invent anything new.
"...Cyber Essentials – the UK government-backed scheme which protects businesses against the most common threats on the internet."
Cyber Essentials Basic just requires an attestation that specific minimal security technologies (e.g. antivirus and a firewall) and practices (e.g. patching) are in place - not even that they're actually working. Cyber Essentials Plus adds an annual one-off penetration test, which of course does not actually prove they are working properly, only that they haven't absolutely failed at the time of the test. Furthermore, the originators of Cyber Essentials explicitly limited its scope to the most elementary low grade threats, and even there it's only the equivalent of an MOT ("annual vehicle safety test" for those of you in foreign parts).
I actually recommended that the Cyber Essentials Basic attestation should include a CMM-based self-assessment of the level to which these minimal technologies and processes are managed, but the suggestion was ignored. Consequently Cyber Essentials does not really protect against much at all.
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