Richard Swart Podcast Transcript on Information Security Education Programs

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ALAN ZAPANTA(ISMG): Now, recently, you have been conducting some compelling research regarding the skill level that the information security industry demands and the current curriculum that many colleges ascribe to. Could you please give us a brief overview?

RICHARD SWART: Yes. I did this research in cooperation with the Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance, which is a consortium of about 120 universities mostly on the East Coast. And what we realized was a gap between the expectations of industry in terms of the skill levels that recent graduates should have and the type of training that universities were providing. So we did a parallel set of surveys where we were able to ask specific questions to both industry leaders and to professors to gauge how they were preparing students to enter the information security field and to try to identify where there was a mismatch between what the professors were doing and what the industry needed.

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