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Tiêu đề
The passion, beauty, and joy of teaching and learning cybersecurity
Tác giả
Weiss R.; O'Brien C.W.; Mountrouidou X.; Mache J.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
Số trích dẫn
4
DOI
10.1145/3017680.3017692
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In the ACM/ IEEE Model Curriculum of 2013, cybersecurity became a new core knowledge area. According to a Cisco report [1] there will be one million jobs in the cybersecurity field that will go unfilled. Currently, cybersecurity education is struggling to keep up not only with producing more experts in the field, but also with the fast pace of technology evolution, so it is difficult for faculty to teach it. Nevertheless, it is exciting and relevant, and there are many experiential ways to teach it rather than reading a standard textbook. In addition to addressing the need for more students, we also want a more diverse workforce. This panel presents several approaches to revealing the excitement and relevance of the field to more students. Our suggestions address three aspects: 1) Passion- making the study rewarding for everybody through puzzles and games, 2) Beauty - making the study inviting and relevant through interdisciplinary topics, and 3) Joy - making teaching hands-on exercises easy to access & assess (through VMs in the cloud). We will be presenting three diverse solutions to teaching Cybersecurity with current, emerging technologies and making it appealing to undergraduate students. The first approach is using Capture the Flag Competitions (CTFs) and industry aligned curriculum to bring the passion in learning about cybersecurity. Now in its fifth year, the National Cyber League (NCL) [5] has a powerful and proven model - provide an ongoing virtual training ground for faculty and students to develop and validate cybersecurity skills using content aligned with individual and team games - which is scalable across many industry certifications, curricula, job roles, and verticals. The second approach is CyberPaths, creating a new paradigm for teaching Cybersecurity in the liberal arts, with general education modules related to law, policy, international conflict, management, and human factors. Furthermore, realistic experimentation on GENI [2] attracts a diverse student population from liberal arts institutions, eliminating the need for creating and maintaining local infrastructure. The project designs different paths for students to double major or minor in CS or complete a simple concentration in Cybersecurity, in accordance with the multidisciplinary education in liberal arts colleges. The third approach is EDURange [4], which addresses ease of use for how we teach Cybersecurity experientially. Furthermore, EDURange offers automated tools that keep track of the thinking process when a student is solving a cybersecurity problem. This offers better evaluation methods and constructive feedback to the students. © 2017 ACM.
Từ khóa
Assessment; Cloud computing; CTF; Cybersecurity
Tài liệu tham khảo
Cybersecurity Talent Gap; Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI); Gordon L.A., Loeb M.P., The economics of information security investment, Journal of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 5, 4, pp. 438-457, (2002); EDU Range; NCL; Weiss R., Boesen S., Sullivan J.F., Locasto M.E., Mache J., Nilsen E., Teaching cybersecurity analysis skills in the cloud, Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 332-337, (2015); Weiss R., Locasto M.E., Mache J., A reflective approach to assessing student performance in cybersecurity exercises, Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (2016), pp. 597-602; Garcia D.D., Cutler R., Dodds Z., Roberts E., Young A., Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: Making computing fun again, continued, Sigcse Bull., 41, 1, pp. 65-66, (2009)
Nơi xuất bản
Association for Computing Machinery
Hình thức xuất bản
Conference paper
Open Access
All Open Access; Bronze Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus