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How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?
by ChrisRR 5y ago
How many boot camp web devs are currently being churned out who don't know the first thing about the 1000 ways their service could be attacked?
- jmknoll 5y agoSeems like the solution being offered up in the article is more bootcamp. > An eight-week online course could help someone land an entry-level job as a "pen tester," a network security engineer or an incident response analyst, Moore said. Those jobs pay between $60,000 to $90,000 a year, she added
- dna_polymerase 5y agoWhile this is probably true for boot camp web devs, it is also a very real problem for recent college grads who learn about fancy algorithms in their CS degrees, but have no idea what angles of attack exist.
- MattGaiser 5y agoThe closest thing to security I learned in university was RSA and why we didn't need to worry unless quantum computing succeeded.
- jiscariot 5y agoLuckily there are now cyber security professional boot camps to fix this. Not kidding: https://bootcamp.umn.edu/cybersecurity/ https://bootcamp.umn.edu/cybersecurity/
- bunfunton 5y agoMany. Worked with a boot camp grad. She asked for help. Open the file and SQL injection literally dead center of the first page. Not a clue or sense of urgency to fix.