Regarding the part about universities adding degrees in cybersecurity, the money is better spent in revising all computer related programs to include secure programming techniques. Maybe even have a class on vulnerabilities and their root cause. I would also include some sort of risk analysis in a business degree as it relates to computers (business machines... the BM in IBM). Any added courses can replace something like art/music/etc for requirements. (isn't 12 years of english classes enough?!) The general corporate community will have a tighter limit on the number of highly skilled or trained security professionals due to costs and/or interest than they do on programmers.


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