The rise in cybercrime, coupled with a cybersecurity skills shortage, led Albany (N.Y.) Law School to offer the first online Master of Science in Legal Studies in Cybersecurity and Data Privacy.
"Cybersecurity has become as much of a legal and policy issue as it is a technical problem," Antony Haynes, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Information Systems at Albany Law, said. "We have this opportunity to bring these non-lawyers and non-technical folks into the conversation so they are able to contribute to what is truly a national problem that affects everybody in all walks of life."
In addition to the threat, in 2015, 209,000 cybersecurity jobs went unfilled in the United States alone, according to an Intel/Center for Strategic and International Studies report.
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Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
