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News Government launches Cyber Retraining Academy

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 3 Nov 2016.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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  2. Locknload

    Locknload Jolly Good Egg

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    Just what we need, Nurses doing a career change?

    This surely must fall into the BULLSHOT category?
     
  3. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    Healthcare is one of the biggest users of data and having someone, like a nurse, who understands the needs of end users when setting up and running a system makes sense. How many times have we seen problems because the IT people and the end users can't communicate effectively with eachother?

    Currently patient data is a soft target for threats. The infrastructure was set up to share, rather than secure, information and when a hospital's network gets hit it makes the news.
     
  4. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    It seems funny that you can make a IT security person out of a randomer in just 10 weeks. Sign me up to that course if its true.
     
  5. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    10 weeks full time is roughly a year of college education (40 vs 45 credit hours). I would say that roughly half of what goes into a 2 year degree in most places is directly related to the course of study, the rest being core subjects, electives, etc. The whole announcement has a bit of a hype feel to it, but if the instruction is good it seems plausable.
     
  6. hiperboreus

    hiperboreus What's a Dremel?

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    Good luck to the good people doing that teachers/scholars.

    On a more cheeky note please make sure that the drone is not Iranian or god forbid a case of mistaken identity
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#787-9
    Wouldn`t be happy as passenger to ask innocent questions like "why is that nurse so close to the runway, by the way", or "why the Wi-Fi is not ON".
    Happy hacking, though.
     

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