PwC Consulting LLC has opened a cyber security experience course for university and graduate students.It will be held free of charge every three months for the purpose of deepening the understanding of cyber security for future managers and entrepreneurs.
According to PwC's 1th World CEO Awareness Survey released in January this year, 19% of CEOs around the world are concerned about cybersecurity.Cyber security measures are an important management issue, but the situation is that the understanding of management and the response to the shortage of human resources are not sufficient.In addition, cyber security education and exercises are mainly aimed at engineers, and the reality is that there are few opportunities for students aiming to become managers or entrepreneurs to acquire the necessary knowledge.
The first course was held on September 2016, 9 and was attended by 10 university and graduate students.Experience-based lessons were conducted while using the competitive game "Game of Threats ™" that allows you to experience the threat of cyber attacks in a company. A tool provided by PwC to executives such as CEOs and CIOs, students are divided into two teams, and with the support of PwC consultants, they alternately attack and defend on a tablet device to win or lose. Competed.By simulating the positions of both the attacker and the manager, he understood the attack pattern of the attacker, and learned how to ensure cyber security and respond to appropriate incidents from the manager's point of view.
