Patchwork cyber laws cost the government money, Amazon security chief says
Briefly

I think that the most important thing to look at is the supply of people with expertise as a pipeline... Are we encouraging people in middle school and high school to get the right skills which will prepare them to learn the details of how to be a cybersecurity professional down the road?... They're usually more around logic, reasoning and understanding cause and effect analysis. And then they focus on building on that with particular technical expertise down the road... requiring a four-year degree is actually handicapping their ability to hire really good people.
A lot of those skills people think about as particular technical things. They're actually not... if somebody's got a lot of experience in this space in a reputable company already, a four-year degree or the absence thereof shouldn't hold them back.
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