Organizations among our followers, here is how and why IBM bring cyber security skills into the classroom.

In this momentum, we can observe that, lack of cyber security skills is billed as a major inhibitor to adoption of emerging technologies like cloud, mobile, cognitive and social networks.

Connectikpeople has observed that, as part of IBM's Academic Initiative, this company is launching new curriculum and programs focusing on cyber security with Fordham University, Georgia Institute of Technology, San Jose State University, Southern Methodist University, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany, Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore, Universidad Cenfotec in Costa Rica, Universiti Kebangsaan in Malaysia, The University of South Carolina, University of Texas at Dallas, and Wroclaw University of Economics in Poland.

The goal here is to help facilitate collaboration with educators around the globe to teach students cyber security skills needed to be competitive in a rapidly changing

work environment.

With this program, Connectikpeople notices that IBM combines its leadership in developing and innovating security products, services and solutions for clients with its long-standing relationship with the academic and research community.  

This means IBM provides:

·        Technology & Tools: Including access to IBM software portfolio through the IBM Academic Initiative and donated network scanners for use in research labs to monitor intrusions

·        Course Materials: Including a Skills Taxonomy with links to appropriate online pages on Academic Initiative, examples of university programs, security and IT services curriculum, publications and trend reports, as well as case studies and real world challenges

·        Faculty Awards: Given to faculty with winning proposals about how to incorporate IBM technology into its curriculum and share what they build with other universities worldwide 

About IBM Security

IBM provides the security intelligence to help organizations protect their people, data, applications and infrastructure. IBM operates one of the world's broadest security research and development organizations. IBM monitors 15 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries and holds more than 3,000 security patents.