I have a BS in Math from a southern liberal arts college that's going on 30 years old, and it has served me well.

I spent my first ~10 years as an active duty US Army Artillery officer, and my math background helped me not only to get job done, but to understand WHY things worked, and more importantly, why they might NOT be working.

I later transitioned to a Unix sysadmin gig, and then to information security, where I've been happily making a living for ~20 years.

The math helps. Let's you go toe-to-toe with the crypto geeks if nothing else. A BS degree carries a whole different type of cred than a BA as well. The social skills from the service help in understanding the hax0r mentality, and I'm pretty confident your wife's ed background and masters level degree would help in that area as well.

With the education and experience you describe your wife as having, she will not have any trouble stepping outside of the box, the first step is the hardest one. Get the resume in order, and start sending applications out.

Red

First, I'm from the US (lived in Germany for a few years and speak Deutsch), so I'm acutely aware of the different business cultures.

My assumption is that the degree is not so much to teach you something, as to "check a box" and get you through the glass ceiling....

That being said, I would go for the Business Informatics track rather than pure CS. You are more likely to learn new things which are useful in the future career you describe there.

All you have to do to earn cred with the t-shirt crowd is to format your CV in TeX, show up with a linux laptop for your interview, and build a RepRap.

Red

Remove the HDs

Boot from a CD (live CD distro), allow user-owned USB drives for persistent storage.

Optionally, customize the live CD to your needs, installing and removing packages to suit the task.

Red

Given the yeast they evolved, "Saccharomyces cerevisiae", does this mean we get better, or more intelligent beer?

Red

I'm sure it was satirical. ;)

Actually, it was not.

It's a modified version of a time honored traditional technique I learned while serving in the US Army.

If an instructor caught you nodding off in a class, he would wake you up, put a tear gas grenade in your hand and pull the pin. Your primary mission at that point became catching another troop going to sleep so you could pass the grenade.

Amazing what a live grenade in your hand will do to to keep you alert and focused......

Red

No Technology required:

1. Announce anyone caught cheating WILL fail the course.

2. Post exactly ONE proctor at the rear of the room. His job is to catch the FIRST cheat.

3. The first cheat should be escorted from the room, and given the following choice: become the proctor and catch another cheat, or fail. If you catch a cheat, you may retake the test and the cheat becomes the proctor with the same choice.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

I recommend you film for future entertainment value.

Red

RIM solved this problem. If you don't want your data on somebody else's server, set up your own BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) with YOUR security policies.

Taint cheap, but you gets what you pays for.......

The consumer blackberries connect to BESs operated by the carriers. My corporate owned one connects to OURS, and the company has all kinds of flexibility to impose policy, remote wipe, etc.

Red

Griffin Powermate. Been around a while, affordable.

http://store.griffintechnology.com/powermate-1

Let the net do your shopping to save $bucks.

Lots more out there, this has easy interface via USB.

Red