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Maintaining the Focus on Cybersecurity in UK Higher Education

Tom Crick Orcid Logo, James H Davenport, Alastair Irons, Sally Pearce, Tom Prickett

ITNOW, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 46 - 47

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/itnow/bwz110

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In August, a Harvard Business Review article postulated that "Every Computer Science Degree Should Require a Course in Cybersecurity", provocatively stating that cybersecurity is eating the software world and arguing that systematically addressing the problem of security begins with educat...

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ISSN: 1746-5702 1746-5710
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
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