research-article

On designing a cybersecurity educational program for higher education

Authors:

Razvan BeuranAuthors Info & Claims

ICETC '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers

Pages 195 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290511.3290524

Published: 26 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Cybersecurity education is critical for preparing current and future IT professionals to deal with the multitude of security threats that occur worldwide on an ever-increasing scale. We believe that this issue can be addressed most effectively at the level of higher education, which provides the best balance of existing skills and available resources as needed for such highly-technical topics.

In this paper we present first of all a methodology for designing a cybersecurity educational program, so that it becomes easier for all interested parties to design such programs, which helps extending the global scale of cybersecurity education. Secondly, we describe in detail how we applied our methodology to design an appropriate cybersecurity program for the case of higher education in Japan, followed by a discussion of the current state of our endeavor.

References

[1]

Kessler, G. C. and Ramsay, J. Paradigms for cybersecurity education in a homeland security program. Journal of Homeland Security Education, 2 (2013), 35.

[2]

Beuran, R., Pham, C., Tang, D., Chinen, K., Tan, Y. and Shinoda, Y. CyTrONE: An Integrated Cybersecurity Training Framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2017) (Porto, Portugal, February 19--21, 2017).

[3]

Martini, B. and Choo, K. R. Building the next generation of cybersecurity professionals (2014).

[4]

McGettrick, A., Cassel, L. N., Dark, M., Hawthorne, E. K. and Impagliazzo, J. Toward curricular guidelines for cybersecurity. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2014). ACM.

Digital Library

[5]

Toth, P. and Klein, P. A Role-Based Model for Federal Information Technology/Cyber Security Training. NIST Special Publication, 800 (2013), 16.

[6]

Locasto, M. E., Ghosh, A. K., Jajodia, S. and Stavrou, A. The ephemeral legion: producing an expert cyber-security work force from thin air. Communications of the ACM, 54, 1 (2011), 129--131.

Digital Library

[7]

Nobles, C. and Burrell, D. Using Cybersecurity Communities of Practice (CoP) to Support Small and Medium Businesses. Academic Conferences and publishing limited, 2018.

[8]

Cheung, R. S., Cohen, J. P., Lo, H. Z. and Elia, F. Challenge based learning in cybersecurity education. The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp), 2011.

[9]

Abraham, S. and Shih, L. Instructional Perspective: Towards an Integrative Learning Approach in Cybersecurity Education (2015).

[10]

Henry, A. P. Mastering the Cyber Security Skills Crisis: Realigning Educational Outcomes to Industry Requirements. ACCS DISCUSSION PAPER, 4 (2017).

[11]

Kolb, A. Y. and Kolb, D. A. Learning Styles and Learning Spaces: Enhancing Experiential Learning in Higher Education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4, 2 (2005), 193--212.

[12]

Franzoni, A. L., Assar, S., Defude, B. and Rojas, J. Student Learning Styles Adaptation Method Based on Teaching Strategies and Electronic Media. 2008.

Digital Library

[13]

Endicott-Popovsky, B. E. and Popovsky, V. M. Application of pedagogical fundamentals for the holistic development of cybersecurity professionals. ACM Inroads, 5, 1 (2014), 57--68.

Digital Library

[14]

Yuan, X., Yang, L., He, W., Ellis, J. T., Xu, J. and Waters, C. K. Enhancing Cybersecurity Education Using POGIL. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2017). ACM.

Digital Library

[15]

William Butler, W. V. M., Helen G. Barker The Evolving Internet of Things (IoT) Requires New Approaches by Colleges and Universities in Educating All Students in Cyber Security. IEEE Standards University E-Magazine, 2016.

[16]

Carlton, M. Development of a cybersecurity skills index: A scenarios-based, hands-on measure of non-IT professionals' cybersecurity skills. Nova Southeastern University, 2016.

[17]

Sabeil, E., Manaf, A. B. A., Ismail, Z. and Abas, M. Cyber forensics competency-based framework-review. International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA), 1, 4 (2011), 991--1000.

[18]

Giannakas, F., Kambourakis, G. and Gritzalis, S. Cyberaware: A mobile game-based app for cybersecurity education and awareness. IEEE, 2015.

[19]

Weiss, R., Turbak, F., Mache, J., Nilsen, E. and Locasto, M. E. Finding the Balance Between Guidance and Independence in Cybersecurity Exercises. USENIX, 2016.

[20]

Bloom, B. S. and Krathwohl, D. R. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Volume 2 Affective Domain. David McKay Company Incorporated, 1971.

[21]

Anderson, L. W., Krathwohl, D. R., Airasian, P. W., Cruikshank, K. A., Mayer, R. E., Pintrich, P. R., Raths, J. and Wittrock, M. C. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, abridged edition. White Plains, NY: Longman (2001).

[22]

Fink, L. D. Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

[23]

Nonaka, I. and Konno, N. The concept of "ba": Building a foundation for knowledge creation. California management review, 40, 3 (1998), 40--54.

[24]

enPiT University Consortium, enPiT-Security (SecCap) Program (in Japanese). https://www.seccap.jp/.

[25]

Yagi, T., Akiyama, M. and Murayama, J. Computer Network Security. Corona Publishing, 2015.

[26]

Beuran, R., Chinen, K., Tan, Y. and Shinoda, Y. Towards Effective Cybersecurity Education and Training. IS-RR-2016-003, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan, 2016.

[27]

Nomura Research Institute Secure Technologies Secure Eggs Training Program (in Japanese). http://www.nri-secure.co.jp/service/leaming/secureeggs.htrnl.

[28]

NICT National Cyber Training Center Cyber Defense Exercise with Recurrence (CYDER) Training Program (in Japanese). https://cyder.nict.go.jp/.

[29]

Japan Network Security Association Security Contest SECCON (in Japanese). http://seccon.jp/.

[30]

Web Application Security Forum Hardening Project (in Japanese). http://wasforum.jp/hardening-project/.

[31]

Industry Cross-Sectoral Committee for Cybersecurity Human Resources Development (CRIC-CSF) Final Report of Stage 1. http://cyber-risk.or.jp/sansanren/index.html.

Cited By

Brito FMekdad YRoss MFinlayson MUluagac SStone JYuen TShoop LRebelsky SPrather J(2025)Enhancing Cybersecurity Education with Artificial Intelligence ContentProceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3641554.3701958(158-164)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701958
Narain SRayavaram PMorales-Gonzalez CHarper MAbbasalizadeh MVellamchety KFu XStone JYuen TShoop LRebelsky SPrather J(2025)Practical Cybersecurity Education: A Course Model Using Experiential Learning TheoryProceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3641554.3701922(819-825)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701922
Mukherjee MLe NChow YSusilo W(2024)Strategic Approaches to Cybersecurity Learning: A Study of Educational Models and OutcomesInformation10.3390/info1502011715:2(117)Online publication date: 18-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/info15020117
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

On designing a cybersecurity educational program for higher education
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula

Recommendations

Game based Cybersecurity Training for High School Students
SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Cybersecurity is critical to the national infrastructure, federal and local government, military, industry, and personal privacy. To defend the U.S. against the cyber threats, a significant demand for skilled cybersecurity workforce is predicted in ...
Development and Analysis of a Spiral Theory-based Cybersecurity Curriculum: (Abstract Only)
SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

The current emphasis on cybersecurity worldwide, demonstrates the importance of this topic. This poster describes a unique NSF funded project that aims to create cybersecurity education opportunities at Virginia Tech (VT). It is a collaborative effort ...
A Case Study of a Cybersecurity Programme: Curriculum Design, Resource Management, and Reflections
SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Cybersecurity is an area of growing international importance. In response to global shortages of Cybersecurity skills, many universities have introduced degree programmes in Cybersecurity. These programmes aim to prepare students to become Cybersecurity ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

ICETC '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers

October 2018

391 pages

ISBN:9781450365178

DOI:10.1145/3290511

Conference Chairs:
Minoru Nakayama
STokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
,
Fang Lou
University of Hertfordshire, UK
,
Program Chairs:
Betsy J. Bannier
Lake Region State College
,
Harumi Watanabe
Tokai University, Japan

Copyright © 2018 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 26 October 2018

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ICETC 2018

ICETC 2018: The 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers

October 26 - 28, 2018

Tokyo, Japan

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

9
Total Citations
View Citations
561
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)106
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)4

Reflects downloads up to 05 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Brito FMekdad YRoss MFinlayson MUluagac SStone JYuen TShoop LRebelsky SPrather J(2025)Enhancing Cybersecurity Education with Artificial Intelligence ContentProceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3641554.3701958(158-164)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701958
Narain SRayavaram PMorales-Gonzalez CHarper MAbbasalizadeh MVellamchety KFu XStone JYuen TShoop LRebelsky SPrather J(2025)Practical Cybersecurity Education: A Course Model Using Experiential Learning TheoryProceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3641554.3701922(819-825)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701922
Mukherjee MLe NChow YSusilo W(2024)Strategic Approaches to Cybersecurity Learning: A Study of Educational Models and OutcomesInformation10.3390/info1502011715:2(117)Online publication date: 18-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/info15020117
Ogrizović MVuletić PStanisavljević Ž(2024)Advanced Network and System Security TeachingElectronics10.3390/electronics1401000314:1(3)Online publication date: 24-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14010003
Tang Z(2024)Study on Japan’s Cybersecurity Strategy and Regional Cybersecurity Construction in the Face of Global CompetitionApplied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences10.2478/amns-2024-26619:1Online publication date: 4-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2024-2661
Crabb JHundhausen CGebremedhin AStephenson BStone JBattestilli LRebelsky SShoop L(2024)A Critical Review of Cybersecurity Education in the United StatesProceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3626252.3630757(241-247)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626252.3630757
Mangundu JChibisa A(2024)Impact of Institutional Support on First-Year Undergraduate Students’ Cybersecurity Compliance BehaviourProceedings of Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology10.1007/978-981-97-3562-4_1(1-21)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3562-4_1
Hall ALiu XMurphy D(2021)Integrating Andragogy Theory into a Multidisciplinary Curriculum to Achieve a Connected Program for a Doctorate in Cybersecurity2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637127(1-8)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637127
Asghar MLuxton-Reilly AZhang JSherriff MHeckman SCutter PMonge A(2020)A Case Study of a Cybersecurity ProgrammeProceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3328778.3366918(16-22)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3328778.3366918

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten