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There are many teaching strategies in higher education; one of these is discussion-based teaching which aims to stimulate conversation and peer learning. Although this teaching strategy has many benefits for students, such as learning how to argue, it has not gained much traction in STEM subjects like Computer Science. However, soft skills have become increasingly important within these fields. A focus when recruiting for roles is not only on hard skills such as programming but also on the ability to communicate well with stakeholders. This paper explores and evaluates an approach to incorporate discussionbased teaching within computer science education, focusing on teaching hard and soft skills. To achieve this, we organised an emulated program committee type of activity for MSc students at our university. We evaluated the activity by asking the students to complete a survey and followed this up by interviewing several students to gather more in-depth reactions from the cohort. The results show that students feel they learnt about the topics tackled within the papers we have chosen, gained more confidence to tackle paper writing, understood the requirements of academic work, and improved their soft skills such as academic writing. The interviews show that students thoroughly enjoyed the activity and are keen to have more interactive discussion sessions like this.

The convergence of IT and OT has presented OT environments with several challenges, such as increasing the attack surface of its real time systems to include more commonplace enterprise vulnerabilities. As OT is used across heavily regulated sectors, including water and nuclear, many standards and guidelines are available to these sectors, providing them with assistance towards continued improvements from a cyber security perspective. However, these standards and guidelines are not always as mature as their IT counterparts. This paper proposes a model to benchmark the maturity of OT focused standards and guidelines, which we then use to analyse seven commonly adopted resources. Based on this analysis, we find that these OT standards and guidelines do not always provide in-depth implementation guidance, and often refer instead to IT standards and guidelines for more information. Improvements are urgently needed in security and risk mitigation for interconnected OT and IT systems, as security controls in OT are typically reappropriated IT controls. To help achieve this goal, OT standards must mature further.