Trainee cyber-criminals wanted to help solve skills shortage
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The world is already short of computer security experts, but by 2017 that shortfall is going to have reached about two million. Criminal hackers cause damage running to billions of pounds every year – just look at the attack on Sony Pictures, leaking unreleased films onto the web and threatening the company's entire system. If we don't do something about this skills gap soon, the costs we bear are going to keep spiralling upwards and we will be increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks.