[whoknew1122]

I think a lot of what you're speaking to is the result of people undervaluing liberal arts degrees.

I work in a technical role, but I have a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts helped me learn how to think, learn new things, synthesize different things into a coherent argument, and more. People ask how I RCA problems so quickly. It's because I'm used to taking a set of facts from pile A, another from pile B, etc. and bring it together to a cogent argument.

Meanwhile I'm interviewing people with CS degrees who can't even explain the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

[cloudsec9]

I think some of this (not being able to tell crypto types apart) is the emphasis on specialization. I helped with some intro infosec courses years back, and these were smart students but they had not much exposure or understanding of basic CLI tools. They had interacted with Windows with a mouse for their entire life, so using a prompt was something new and strange. Most picked it up, but it took a bit of time.