A good way to fast track security practices in the universities would be to have actual hackathons that attempt to breach cs and it department computers... with

A good way to fast track security practices in the universities would be to have actual hackathons that attempt to breach cs and it department computers... with extra points if you can make a clown of the head of the it dept or professor of security. I suggested this once actually at an org that made frequent use of Hackathons (as in we had one every quarter), basically an internal CTF challenge. Executive paranoia took over and held strangled the life out of any good sense, nuance or reason, so of course in the end, we never did it.