Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia
Summary: An analysis of College Board and Perm State National Research University data cited by Krebs on Security found that roughly 60,000 Russian students register each year for the national informatics exam, suggesting about 600,000 over a decade, versus 270,000 U.S. high school students who took the AP computer science exam between 2005 and 2016. Russia's Federal Educational Standards make informatics compulsory in middle school, while Microsoft reported that only 2,100 of just over 42,000 U.S. high schools were certified to teach AP computer science in 2011.
What you should know: ISACA estimated a global shortage of two million cybersecurity professionals by 2019, and Microsoft warned that if U.S. companies cannot fill R&D jobs here, those jobs will migrate to countries graduating more STEM-trained people.
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