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Re:Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online... by vzcx on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:57PM (#17771756)
As non-degreed developer who is looking to transition to security work, I was initially excited to see this program but had a similar reaction after looking at the curriculum.

Potential gems on the list might be the OS or networking course if they are run something like MIT's 6.828 with lots of lab coding and perhaps a bit of hand-holding, but if you can just clone last semester's 6.828 repo and get osdev'ing, why drop 10k to spend most of your time on courses that look like yawn central?

I think what I really wanted to see was a lab-focused curriculum for aspiring vulnerability researchers, so perhaps I was bound to be disappointed.

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Re:Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online... by gaius on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:44AM (#17772706)
a lab-focused curriculum for aspiring vulnerability researchers

A MS is an academic degree so of course it will be heavy on the theory, and you will mainly be expected to do practical work independently on top. Same as an undergraduate degree actually, at least a good one. That stuff you call “yawn central” is the principles that will last your entire career, the stuff you learn in the lab will be obsolete in a few years.

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