How Microsoft Plans To Fill 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs (protocol.com) 31
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will expand its cybersecurity skilling initiative to 23 additional countries. The campaign, which began last year in the U.S., is part of the company's push to help solve the cybersecurity industry's growing talent problem, while also helping diversify the industry. From a report: Like many industries within tech, cybersecurity is facing both a workforce shortage and a widening skills gap among workers. According to Kate Behncken, vice president and lead of Microsoft Philanthropies, by 2025 there will be 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs open globally. Microsoft originally launched the skilling campaign in the U.S. last fall, partnering with 135 community colleges to skill and recruit workers into the cybersecurity industry. By expanding skilling and training to 23 countries, Microsoft aims to get ahead of the demand. The countries, which include Australia, Brazil, Canada and India, were chosen due to their "elevated cyberthreat risk."
The plan: (Score:2)
2. Provide solution for high prices
3. Profit $$
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1. Create a market for a solution.
Microsoft is an industry leader in creating the need for more cyber security, someone call the bank and tell them to expect large deposits.
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explain zero trust limitations as compared to AD. MS can't even protect their own product/dev so how will they help anyone else.
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explain zero trust limitations as compared to AD. MS can't even protect their own product/dev so how will they help anyone else.
But MS does not only make crap, they can _sell_ crap. I mean if you can sell products as bad as Windows, Office, AD, etc. not only well, but also make trigger Stockholm Syndrome in a major part of the customers to they think they are actually get good products, then you are really a the pinnacle of what a sales team can achieve. Hence this initiative by MS is absolutely no surprise to me.
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"Establish and maintain offline backups. Ensure you have files safely stored from attacker accessibility with read-only access. Also, consider the use of offsite/cold storage solutions. The availability of backup files is a significant differentiator for organizations that can help them recover from a ransomware attack."
https://securityintelligence.c... [securityintelligence.com]
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Mod parent up, but you weren't going for FP so you had time to mention the warranty (AKA EULA) thing that underlies the indifference to creating secure software in the first place. If Microsoft had been liable for the problems created by their software, then we would be living in a very different world today. I event think it would be a better one.
(And no, Microsoft isn't the only company doing it, but I think they were the first to perfect liability evasion.)
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>If Microsoft had been liable for the problems created by their software, then we would be living in a very different world today. I event think it would be a better one.
Or, we would have relatively little software, as the liability would be too much for anyone to undertake. Or software would be so expensive that no-one would be able to own any.
Software is hard and complex. It takes a very long time to prove correctness, if it is even possible.
What software comes with full guarantees that it is defect
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That was a deliberate economic policy, not a computational necessity. But I already suspect you're thinking with your wallet and you are a professional producer of flawed software.
The 'badness' of "these days" is merely the consequence. Or if you prefer, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." You might even be in the cure business?
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>That was a deliberate economic policy, not a computational necessity.
So where are the defect free provably correct OS's or applications in the open source world. Surely if it is just a matter of economic policy there should be some noble souls who would go the small step necessary and do that. /sarc
>But I already suspect you're thinking with your wallet and you are a professional producer of flawed software.
I already suspect that you have no idea what it would take to produce an OS that is defect fr
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NAK
By getting oxymorons (Score:2)
Filling those jobs is simple (Score:2)
No need for oxymorons.rumor has it there's going to be ten times that many computational security experts on the job market and willing to relocate. Plus they wil have the critical skill of speaking russian and being familiar with spotting Russian hacker technical questions
FIFY (Score:2)
How Microsoft Created 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs
Fixed it for you. You are welcome.
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How Microsoft Created 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs, this week.
FTFY
Skilling? (Score:2)
Is it trendy to turn nouns into verbs these days?
And I suspect a MSCCTE (MicroSoft Certified Cybersecurity Threat Engineer, or whatever they are going to call it) will rapidly become about as valuable as an MCSE did, which is to say none whatsoever.
Englishing (Score:2)
Is it trendy to turn nouns into verbs these days?
Clearly, you have not been Englished enough - we've been doing it a long time e.g. "to ship" comes from the noun "a ship", "to mail" from "the mail" etc. After a while we forget where the verbs came from. It's only the clunky modern attempts to do this that stick out as annoying since they have not (and may never) catch on. Just Google it [grammarly.com] if you don't believe me.
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Is it trendy to turn nouns into verbs these days?
Clearly, you have not been Englished enough - we've been doing it a long time e.g. "to ship" comes from the noun "a ship", "to mail" from "the mail" etc. After a while we forget where the verbs came from. It's only the clunky modern attempts to do this that stick out as annoying since they have not (and may never) catch on. Just Google it [grammarly.com] if you don't believe me.
You left out an important class of verbagated nouns - the ize ending - minimize, maximize, synergize, etc.
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MCSE = Microsoft Certified Spongiform Encephalitis
LOL MS BAD (Score:2)
LINUX bad need to pay for each cpu with win server (Score:2)
LINUX bad need to pay for each cpu in your VM cluster with win server
Microsoft and Zero trust (Score:2)
The player finally gets played. (Score:2)
The world's leading advocate for a culture of stupid and "people shouldn't have to know about computers in order to be able to use a computer" is finally starting to see that at least a significant percentage of the population needs to know about computers if everyone is going to use a computer. Forty years worth of viciously killing the competition (both the businesses and the better technology) and promoting a dull monoculture (plus a bazillion-dollar proxy war on Unix-like OSes) finally bites. I've no
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The world's leading advocate for a culture of stupid and "people shouldn't have to know about computers in order to be able to use a computer"
No; the article is about Microsoft, not Apple.
Silly Commenters (Score:2)
Everyone rushed to make joke's about Windows security (or rather, the lack of it). Has no one else noticed that TFA is implying ("Microsoft plans to fill...") that Microsoft plans to grow their current world-wide workforce of about 180,000 employees by 3.5 BILLION? I rather doubt that Kate Behncken meant Microsoft would be hiring 3.5 billion people. Perhaps she meant that 3.5 billion people would be employed somewhere in the field of cybersecurity. That is pretty hard to swallow, given the United Nations' m
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That is 3.5 _million_. Still pretty impressive.
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Oops. Guess that should be, "silly me".
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The people who write the stories and the people who write the clickbait headline are not the same.
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As someone else pointed out, I mistook "millions" for "billions". But TFA's headline was just as click-baity as TFA headline.
Outsourcing cybersecurity (Score:2)
Hire under represented (Score:2)