UK companies are struggling to fill their IT security vacancies. Our panel of experts discuss why this and what the industry can do to arrest the decline of IT graduates. This video is part I of II.
A couple of years ago I produced a report for the Gov's Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network showing that at least 80% of computing undergraduates in England got less than 6 hours teaching on security. Indications are that this hasn't changed.
One likely reason is that industry doesn't pressure universities to teach it. So, instead of making pious noises and complaints, industry should get off its behind and clearly tell unis it's needed, and help them to deliver it.
Bill Whyte
Posted by: Bill Whyte 14 Feb 2011
I have a PhD on Cyber Security from Imperial College (+ post-doc, several publications etc) and I am not even invited to interviews. If the companies claim that they have so much difficulty in finding strong candidates, then they may need to talk to their HR departments first to figure out why high caliber candidates are excluded. My guess is that the usually inflexible HRs simply can't keep up either.
Posted by: Genuinely Surprised 06 Feb 2011
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