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There is a certain school in my area that offers a Masters in Cyber Security. We have come to learn through interviews that people with this degree know very li

by TACIXAT 11y ago

There is a certain school in my area that offers a Masters in Cyber Security. We have come to learn through interviews that people with this degree know very little about practical security, reverse engineering, and exploitation. I'm sure it helps them get a sweet government job though.

grkvlt 11y ago
Of course you don't need to know how to write shellcode, or have in-depth knowledge of anti-debugger reversing tricks, to write a very useful and robust security policy for an organisation, or manage a global incident response team. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the degree just because it doesn't teach 'practical' security. It's the same story with Computer Science degrees, which don't teach about source control or agile software methodologies, since these 'practical' subjects aren't really anything to do with CS.