Our critical infrastructure is vulnerable – better cyber security can fix it

The United States is under attack. Every day, foreign actors across the globe, and especially in Russia and China, are working to break through our cyber defenses, hack our systems, and cause chaos in our most critical infrastructure. We are often successful in keeping them out, but unfortunately their success rate is climbing.

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As a computer scientist myself, I find these attacks extremely alarming. The United States is falling behind countries such as Russia and China in not just our cyber defenses, but also in our ability to produce the highly skilled computer science professionals necessary to build those defenses. According to a report from Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, in 2007 Chinese universities surpassed U.S. institutions in the production of STEM PhDs, and by 2025 their yearly graduates will nearly double those by American universities.

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