WHY

 

- a most formidable 24/7/366 red team pool very few other organizations may have available

- sooner or later the need to protect the school from malicious actors

- cell phones and smartphones very often are off limits or go under the radar to parents, guardians, other

- provides training for life at an early age which can be used to enter the workforce or already have this all majors recommended background; kids need not to waste valuable or expensive college time and can concentrate on whatever the career path is, e.g. business, architecture, medicine

- training can provide an entry-point to IT/CS minded students in particular as regards the uncertain path of "traditional programming" or "traditional IT/CS/non cloud jobs"

- most tools and resources are free for the asking or the download or the trial or whatever

- kids can try or test things even at home or with even just device

- every device is an entry-point

- ideal setting for an Innovative Learning School plan; ideal partners to comm & network companies, thus favorably advancing towards IT infrastructure/data plan awards (schools end up helping shield their comm nets, kind of white hat armies and armies of ants; law of large numbers may apply)

- altogether whether it's a bank, health care center or a school it doesn't matter as regards fundamentals approaches and tools; training both for student body and faculty comes close to pro/dedicated professional

- market:audiences: as much as I like universities let's say there are about 3k of them; as per google there must be about 45k high schools!

- ages ago folks used to talk about computer literacy; what if today's "issue" or "need" is cybersecurity?

- probably doesn't hurt to consider it may configure a small stream of funding, e.g. serving non school players; everyone's a stakeholder when it comes to cybersecurity

- add a little or stimulating professional/tech "live" dimension to faculty

- school curriculum cannot be so absent (gotcha digital divide also there!) from the sizable time window kids spend with devices and I don't mean to be mean, only let's profit from that dedication (untold man/woman hours! I do not mean for them to work, it's just some expression of labor)

- I'm sure quite a few Moms and Pops will love the idea!