Please stop getting a Bachelor's in Cyber

The author argues that Bachelor's degrees in Cybersecurity are problematic because graduates often lack understanding of how security controls interact with underlying systems and business contexts. They use an analogy of locks to illustrate how cybersecurity professionals need to understand both technical systems and business risk tolerance, not just security best practices. The author recommends getting undergraduate degrees in IT, CS, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering instead to build foundational system knowledge, while suggesting graduate degrees in Cyber are acceptable. They mention interviewing a Cybersecurity Bachelor's graduate who couldn't differentiate between hashing and encryption.