Maryland has a future in being the perennial powerhouse in cyber security but it's lacking something that will help the state's industry take off like a rocket — and that's depth.
In Friday's print edition cover story I wrote about how colleges and universities are scrambling to change curriculum to prepare more students for success in the cyber world post graduation. Industry executives have lamented that colleges aren't doing enough to prepare students to fill vacant positions — more than 10,000 across Maryland in 2013, according to career services firm Burning Glass.