Cybersecurity education and training are provided in a variety of ways. These include online/face-to-face courses, online self-study (e.g., Skillsoft Skillport), reading textbooks/periodicals, and video presentations. Of the various approaches, which do you feel is the most effective? Are there any recommendations you could provide to help improve the ways that cybersecurity knowledge is conveyed?
I think that in-person, and/or hands-on training is the best way to learn information. It keeps you from getting distracted as easily, and when you’re physically performing work instead of learning about how to do it, you end up learning how to do it alot more easily, and it stays with you more. It takes alot of self discipline to self-teach, and even more to practice certain skills, and put information you learn into practice. I personally tried to self-teach myself information for the CCNA exam, and failed miserably; that test is incredibly, incredibly difficult without prior knowledge, or experience. Remote learning is a good compromise to it where you’re still doing hands on work, but you’re learning from your own home. You can still get distracted, but it takes much less discipline than to self-teach.