Whatcom County colleges educating much-needed cybersecurity specialists

The urgent and massive need for computer security professionals has caught the government, industry and education sectors quite unprepared. Corporations such as Target are suddenly finding that large-scale compromise of their information systems is not just an embarrassment, but a significant threat to their commercial viability.

Are corporations in Washington state, across the spectrum from the commercial to the technology sectors, any better prepared and any less vulnerable to cyber-attack than Target?

Probably not.