I think it's good to increase the budget in security, as it is for anything else in technology and development. I used to like to do what you did when I was in high school, and played around with this "Save" hacking game if you know? Haha, it was a lot of fun even though I don't really understand why!? It was just all weird game trying to get the password of the sysadmin though Telnet lol... and guess what, my high school didn't disable telnet port lol... so I played it using my high school computers lol...
Hopefully this will bring more professionals in this field

I personally don't keep up with security anymore, but are there many professionals in this field?