PLAYGROUND: preparing students for the cyber battleground

Nielson, Seth James

doi:10.1080/08993408.2016.1271526

“…A survey by Stack Overflow in 2019 showed that 62.4% (75,614 responses) of developers have a degree in CS, computer engineering, or software engineering [60]. Given the importance of this group, many researchers study them to either address gaps between academia and industry [16,37,55,56,61] or to suggest educational tools to improve their skill and abilities [48,62,69]. Research shows that CS students often work under misconceptions which can lead to bad practice.…”

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“I Don’t Know Too Much About It”: On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

Tahaei

¹

,

Jenkins

²

,

Vaniea³

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The security attitudes and approaches of software developers have a large impact on the software they produce, yet we know very little about how and when these views are constructed. This paper investigates the security and privacy (S&P) perceptions, experiences, and practices of current Computer Science students at the graduate and undergraduate level using semi-structured interviews. We find that the attitudes of students already match many of those that have been observed in professional level developers. Students have a range of hacker and attack mindsets, lack of experience with security APIs, a mixed view of who is in charge of S&P in the software life cycle, and a tendency to trust other peoples' code as a convenient approach to rapidly build software. We discuss the impact of our results on both curriculum development and support for professional developers.

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Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust

Tahaei

¹

,

Jenkins

²

,

Vaniea³

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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"I Don't Know Too Much About It": On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

Tahaei,

Jenkins,

Vaniea

et al. 2021

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The security attitudes and approaches of software developers have a large impact on the software they produce, yet we know very little about how and when these views are constructed. This paper investigates the security and privacy (S&P) perceptions, experiences, and practices of current Computer Science students at the graduate and undergraduate level using semi-structured interviews. We find that the attitudes of students already match many of those that have been observed in professional level developers. Students have a range of hacker and attack mindsets, lack of experience with security APIs, a mixed view of who is in charge of S&P in the software life cycle, and a tendency to trust other peoples' code as a convenient approach to rapidly build software. We discuss the impact of our results on both curriculum development and support for professional developers.

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PLAYGROUND: preparing students for the cyber battleground

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“I Don’t Know Too Much About It”: On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

“I Don’t Know Too Much About It”: On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust

"I Don't Know Too Much About It": On the Security Mindsets of Computer Science Students

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