Toward curricular guidelines for cybersecurity

Abstract

This session reports on a workshop convened by the ACM Education Board with funding by the US National Science Foundation and invites discussion from the community on the workshop findings.The topic, curricular directions for cybersecurity, is one that resonates in many departments considering how best to prepare graduates to face the challenges of security issues in employment and future research. The session will include presentation of the workshop context and conclusions, but will be open to participant discussion. This will be the first public presentation of the results of the workshop and the first opportunity for significant response.

The urgent need for an enforced awareness programme to create internet security awareness in nigeria

“…This is usually in the form of outreach and awareness programmes organised by internal and external security professionals [26]. Another method is to integrate the Internet security resources into the school curriculum to equip students with practical cyber safety skills and knowledge [27]. A number of universities now recommend providing security awareness training and education components for students and staff.…”

A UK Case Study on Cybersecurity Education and Accreditation

“…With this significant economic and societal focus on cybersecurity, there are calls for formal education -school-level as well as tertiary -to respond to this situation, at the individual level and via recommended curricula [12,13] and professional accreditation requirements [14,15]. This is further reinforced by a wider focus on digital skills and computer science education reform, especially across the nations of the UK [16][17][18].…”

Teaching psychological principles to cybersecurity students

“…Indeed the call for papers for a recent conference organised in the UK by the Higher Education Academy on learning and teaching in cybersecurity listed relevant disciplines as 'STEM' and 'Computing' and the eventual programme of abstracts contained no mention of psychology. Similarly, curricular guidance for the field of cybersecurity education produced by the ACM [4], contained just two uses of the word psychology and no further detail. However, within the last year the importance of psychology has begun to be recognized in the academic literature [3].…”