A tale of two industries The United States Navy takes 18-year-olds fresh out of high school and trains them to operate nuclear reactors in 18 months. These aren’t college graduates. They’re not experienced professionals. They’re young people with the right potential who go through the most rigorous, structured program in the military that transforms them into personnel trusted with some of the highest-stakes responsibilities imaginable. Meanwhile, in cybersecurity, we claim we can’t find qualified people. We claim there’s a talent shortage, that candidates just don’t have the skills we need. We look for unicorns, saying training takes too long. We constantly search for senior professionals w...