The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. We have a lot of programs geared toward education at a lot of different levels.

Cybersecurity 160

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001. Looking at the present value of benefits and costs from 2017's perspective for these economic sectors finds that the present value of benefits rises to approximately $251 billion while the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective remains the same at $127 million.

Encryption 60

Encryption Agriculture Retail Manufacturing 60

Rocket Software

MAY 13, 2020

To be fair, I was in school in the early aughts, from 2001 to 2004; this type of talk was fully accepted. The numbers are certainly out there, and those of us who work in big financial and retail can tell you that they haven’t declined the way others had expected them to. Programmers should influence our educational institutions.

Education 69

Education Retail Insurance IT 69