Assessing the Awareness of Cybersecurity Within Entrepreneurship Students: The Cyberpreneurship Project

Abstract

This study addresses an important gap in both academia and practice related to the lack of a shared language and sometimes conflicting priorities between entrepreneurs and cybersecurity experts. Entrepreneurs are often pressed to create and launch products and services as quickly as possible to achieve a first-mover advantage in the market. In doing so, they tend to overlook cybersecurity threats and risks due to a lack of awareness and insufficient funding. This can lead to theft of intellectual property, project failure, and inaccurate risk assessment. In addition, cybersecurity students who study risk management often struggle to analyze real client issues due to the sensitive nature of the data and assets in most organizations. The Cyberpreneurship Project outlined within this research was designed to tackle to this problem by engaging cybersecurity students in a risk assessment of start-up businesses developed by entrepreneurship graduate students. The project is an interdisciplinary exploratory study developed to enhance awareness of cybersecurity risks and experiential opportunities among both entrepreneurship and cybersecurity students.

Evaluation of a Summer Course in Entrepreneurship for Disadvantaged High School Students

“…We employed the single-group pretest-posttest design to examine the effectiveness of the program by comparing the scale scores before and after attending the program. This design is considered superior to cross-sectional designs (Seifert et al, 2010) and continues to be utilized in educational research (e.g., Flasch et al, 2017) including entrepreneurship education research (e.g., Plachkinova & Pittz, 2021;Yamakawa, et al, 2016).…”