NYU Cybersecurity Program Bets On Affordability, Scalability, And Diversity To Educate More Students | With Nasir Memon, Aspen Olmsted, and Paola Garcia Cardenas

According to many —pretty much everyone— the cybersecurity industry is offering many jobs, but there are not enough trained professionals to answer the call. While it sounds like the kind of problem we want to have, it is not.

Cybersecurity is a critical industry now, and we desperately need those professionals to join — like, yesterday. The problem is that they are not there, and we wonder why.

Often we come across barriers and hurdles during our professional careers, and we can find ways to overcome them. But when these obstacles present themselves at the beginning of our educational experience, these can be high enough to stop our journey altogether.  

In this podcast, we talk about the concept of Affordability, Scalability, And Diversity To Educate More Students and resolve this problem as much and as fast as possible.

“Many universities spend 10s of thousands of dollars per student for student acquisition. And I think that's a shame. You're giving money away to advertisers. Why don't you just give it to the student?” — Nasir Memon

“There's a lot of people sitting at home right now who could transition to cybersecurity, but they took a math class 20 years ago and they didn't like it. If we can build the tooling to help them feel more confident that they can do this online, they can get past those hurdles and be successful.” — Aspen Olmsted

“I'm actually enjoying the program a lot and one of the things from the program is the diversity of the students in it. I come from the computer science background, but we have people coming from psychology and all different kinds of backgrounds. It's kind of like a good mix because you learn how other people think.” — Paola Garcia Cardenas

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Guest(s)
Nasir Memon, Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs, Professor, NYU

Aspen Olmsted, Ph.D. — Computer Science & Engineering — Program Manager, Cyber Fellows Program, NYU

Paola Garcia Cardenas, 3rd Year Cyber Fellows Program Student and Bridgewater Scholarship Recipient

Resources
Learn more about the program 
https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/cybersecurity-ms-online/nyu-cyber-fellows

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