Security News > 2024 > January > Wait, security courses aren't a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree?

Jack Cable, a CISA senior technical advisor, writes that in 2019 when he was a computer science student at Stanford University in California, he didn't need to take any cybersecurity courses to graduate.

Nearly five years later, "That list of the top 24 universities in computer science hasn't changed: 23 still don't require cybersecurity," Cable wrote in his memo.

The University of California, San Diego, for the record, is the only school in the top 24 with a computer science and engineering program that does list security as an undergraduate degree requirement, although it's unclear if that's really the case from the college's curriculum.

If colleges and universities aren't requiring computer science students to take any infosec classes before they are hired by these companies, look, we've got a real problem.

In September, the agency hosted a workshop that centered around the challenges in incorporating security into computer science curricula, and one of the hurdles identified was a lack of demand.

Last month, CISA put out a Request for Information on the role of security in computer science education.

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