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IT Students Not Being Properly Educated On Security

Tom Young writes on Computing:

IT students are not being educated on how to "bake in" security when designing and developing new software applications, according to research.

The study for the Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) found that just one in five UK computing undergraduates get no more than five hours education on software security – and many get none at all.

Insecure software applications have a knock-on effect on end users by making their systems vulnerable, according to Bill Whyte, who carried out the research.

“Today’s computing market is a complex value chain of software activities and is as vulnerable as its weakest link," he said.

More here.

Note: This sort of educational deficiency is directly manifesting itself in the broad scope of web threats that we are seeing with the increasing number of website compromises. -ferg

posted by Fergie @ 5/13/2008 10:11:00 AM