One of my early responsibilities in cyber was trying to get schools to teach more cyber in their curriculums and it seems sometimes that may be more consequential than it first appears. In an article produced at the University of Toronto, references an article from Columbia ‘s School of Jounalism saying some sources are not protected because journalists don’t understand what it takes to protect a source from discovery. Hack journalists and you hack their sources. See: https://www.cjr.org/innovations/journalism-schools-behind-cybersecurity.php.
Journalism is only one of the places that needs more education. Business people fall into giving money to scammers, giving away private data of their employees, and a lot more that could be prevented. Computer and IT classes make cyber an afterthought and rarely have people teaching it who know the subject. Institutions have not done well at teaching concepts used to rip off their students while they attend school, and after they graduate. Nothing much has changed. A professor once told me not to worry about that kind of stuff because “anybody can teach that sort of thing”. That made the quality of the curriculum easier to understand.
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