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Latest Sophos Cyber Security Challenge seeks to address critical Linux security skills gap (SecurityPark.net)

Latest Sophos Cyber Security Challenge seeks to address critical Linux security skills gap (SecurityPark.net)

Posted Aug 22, 2012 7:56 UTC (Wed) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
Parent article: Latest Sophos Cyber Security Challenge seeks to address critical Linux security skills gap (SecurityPark.net)

Sophos to address critical Linux skills gap? Best put their own house in order then ...


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Latest Sophos Cyber Security Challenge seeks to address critical Linux security skills gap (SecurityPark.net)

Posted Aug 22, 2012 13:05 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I'm not sure how a contest can be said to 'address' a skills gap in any real sense anyway. You're not creating new security geeks, just highlighting underappreciated existing ones -- and if there are a lot of those, there is something very wrong with the existing process for getting new security geeks employed.

This just looks like a variant on a jobs fair to me, and about as worthy of reporting. It's not really about fixing anything or addressing any sort of gap in anything at all.

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