What a cool idea. This type of approach drives kids into technical fields and really interesting careers.
A new consortium of U.S. government and private organizations has set out to find tech-minded youngsters, divert them from video games and set them on a course to become cybersecurity “top guns.”
The U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Air Force Association and the SANS Institute this week launched the U.S. Cyber Challenge.
The only troubling piece to this is kids who have been engaged in malicious activity have a significant head start in the capture the flag game. I don’t think we want to have the bad eggs included in the information security profession.
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