A security capstone course: An innovative practical approach to distance education

Evans, Nathaniel; Blakely, Benjamin; Jacobson, Doug

doi:10.1109/fie.2009.5350409

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“…Others have sought to develop lab environments [3], and reconfigurable course modules [4,5] to facilitate technical learning of specific and hands-on cyber security topics. More novel approaches include the use of hacking competitions [6] and capstone design courses [7].…”

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Workshop: Teaching computer security literacy to the masses: A practical approach

Jacobson

Rursch

Idziorek

2012

2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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We are losing the battle in cyber security. We heavily rely on technology as the main defense, instead of recognizing that the easiest attack vectors are the people who operate the computers. The general public does not understand the decisions they make each and every day have security implications for themselves, their projects and their companies. Since people are a primary target, education is one of the "secret weapons" in the cyber security battlefield. Further, if everyday users are the targets, then all audiences, not just technical staff, need training and education in cyber security basics.We argue that computer security literacy is not only the next step in computer security defense; it may be one of the most important steps we can take. Through this workshop we want to encourage the profession to reach out to the populous and help make them security literate.The goal of the workshop is to provide an alternative approach to teaching Computer Security Literacy. This approach, developed at Iowa State University, demonstrates how Computer Security Literacy courses for non-technical students benefit them in their daily lives, now as students and in the future as working professionals.

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Workshop: Teaching computer security literacy to the masses: A practical approach

Jacobson

Rursch

Idziorek

2012

2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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“…The virtualized environment utilized for the ISU information assurance capstone course was created for 2 purposes. The first was to leverage experiences with cyber defense competitions to create a graduate course based around the same concepts and, second, to provide off-campus students a way of completing the creative component of their Masters degree without requiring them to travel to the ISU campus [EBJ09]. In essence, the class is an extended cyber defense competition that takes place on virtualized systems and networks.…”

Section: Iowa State University: Information Assurance Capstone Coursementioning

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“…To create their VMs, networks, and manage them, students utilize the VMware Infrastructure Client, connect to the host machine, and then use the admin functions of the Infrastructure Client to manage their networks. During the class, students will then operate from these VMs and networks to defend their systems, and conduct attacks against other students in a "Capture the Flag" competition that lasts for several weeks [EBJ09].…”

Section: Iowa State University: Information Assurance Capstone Coursementioning

confidence: 99%

Xen Worlds: Creating a virtual laboratory environment for use in education

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Security across the curriculum and beyond

Idziorek

Rursch

Jacobson

2012

2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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Society's dependency on informationtecbnology has drasticaUy outpaced educational curricula and the opportunities that universities and higher education institutes provide to students from both technical (e.g., computer engineering, computer science) and non-technical majors. To increase the opportunities for all students to learn how protect themselves as individuals and others as professionals from numerous cyber threats the focus of this work is to identify gaps in engineering curricula and present novel approaches to fulfill the growing and diverse needs of cyber security education.The overall objective of this paper is to make security education accessible, relevant, and tangible across educational curricula, as well as to provide tbeframework to extend these efforts beyond university classrooms and into community coUeges and high schools. While the predominant focus,research, and innovative practices in the area of cyber security have focused on technical students at the university level, this work instead concentrates on the demographic of students that desire to learn about cyber security without having to major in computer engineering, for example. In this paper we present a threetiered framework that provides breadth and depth to security education across multiple education levels. This all-encempassing framework for security education includes providing (I) formal literacy-based training for students of all backgrounds, (2) inquiry-based learning through security-and technically-focused student groups and activities, and (3) classical technical-based initiatives. For each of these respective areas, previous research and efforts are discussed as well as the innovative practices that we have developed to address identified educational gaps.

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A security capstone course: An innovative practical approach to distance education

Cited by 4 publications

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Workshop: Teaching computer security literacy to the masses: A practical approach

Workshop: Teaching computer security literacy to the masses: A practical approach

Xen Worlds: Creating a virtual laboratory environment for use in education

Security across the curriculum and beyond

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