Cybersecurity workforce development: A peer mentoring approach

Janeja, Vandana P.; Seaman, Carolyn; Kephart, Kerrie; Gangopadhyay, Aryya; Everhart, Amy

doi:10.1109/isi.2016.7745487

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“…We wanted to establish the use of peer mentoring in the cybersecurity curriculum [11], [12]. Thus, in our peer mentor-ing approach, we pair the undergraduate students from IS 300: Management of Information Systems gateway course with the students from (IS 471: Data Analytics for Cybersecurity), an advanced cybersecurity course.…”

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Measuring Peer Mentoring Effectiveness in Computing Courses: A Case Study in Data Analytics for Cybersecurity

Faridee

Janeja

2019

2019 26th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop (HiPCW)

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Computing courses often suffer from lack of diversity. In this paper we evaluate an intervention method of peer mentoring to help increase interest in data analytics in cybersecurity. We present a text mining approach to analyze student assignments while they undergo a peer mentoring exercise. In our prior work, we have shown that the peer mentoring approach is effective at improving the students' interest in cybersecurity careers and contributes to an overall better knowledge gain throughout the semester. This was also reflected by an improvement in grades with two years of anonymous survey results. Across the years we also observed that peer mentoring is particularly effective in diverse groups. In this paper, we perform text mining of the written assignments for analyzing the group behavior of the control and experiment sections of a class while also documenting the effectiveness of intervention methods such as peer mentoring. We employ a few text mining techniques, namely Text Frequency Analysis, Lexical Diversity, Readability Analysis, Hyperlink usage and Objectivity Analysis on the text assignments submitted by the students and show that students who receive peer mentoring are able to express more complex ideas with fewer words and thereby receive higher grades by the end of the semester. Based on these results, we also discuss how our methodology would be applicable in increasing reachability and diversity in other specialized computing courses such as Big Data and distributed systems.

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Measuring Peer Mentoring Effectiveness in Computing Courses: A Case Study in Data Analytics for Cybersecurity

Faridee

Janeja

2019

2019 26th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop (HiPCW)

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“…There have been a wide variety of studies related to cybersecurity education. They have covered instructional techniques [3] such as competitions [4], metaphors [5], games [6] and peer mentoring [7] and instruction [8]. Studies have also focused on the development of exercises [9] and learning technologies [10] for hands-on educational activities.…”

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Experiential Research Education: A Report on the First Year of an NSF-sponsored Cyber-physical System Cybersecurity Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Straub¹

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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He holds a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, an M.S. and an M.B.A. and has published over 40 journal articles and over 120 full conference papers, in addition to making numerous other conference presentations. Straub's research spans the gauntlet between technology, commercialization and technology policy. In particular, his research has recently focused on cybersecurity topics including intrusion detection and forensics, robotic command and control, aerospace command and 3D printing quality assurance. Straub is a member of Sigma Xi, the AAAS, the AIAA and several other technical societies, he has also served as a track or session chair for numerous conferences.

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“…These programs can use a multitude of approaches such as incorporating competitions [7], implementing certification-driven course progressions [8] and approaches based on systems thinking [9] and multi-disciplinary inquiry [10]. Peer instruction [11], mentoring [12] and challenge-based learning [13] have also been proposed for use.…”

Section: Cybersecurity Graduate Programsmentioning

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Development of a Graduate Cybersecurity Research Methods Course

Straub

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Cybersecurity workforce development: A peer mentoring approach

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Measuring Peer Mentoring Effectiveness in Computing Courses: A Case Study in Data Analytics for Cybersecurity

Measuring Peer Mentoring Effectiveness in Computing Courses: A Case Study in Data Analytics for Cybersecurity

Experiential Research Education: A Report on the First Year of an NSF-sponsored Cyber-physical System Cybersecurity Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Development of a Graduate Cybersecurity Research Methods Course

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