Information assurance education in two- and four-year institutions

Pérez, Lance C.; Cooper, Stephen; Hawthorne, Elizabeth K.; Wetzel, Susanne; Brynielsson, Joel; Gökce, Asım Gencer; Impagliazzo, John; Khmelevsky, Youry; Klee, Karl J.; Leary, Margaret A.; Philips, Amelia; Pohlmann, Norbert; Taylor, Blair; Upadhyaya, Shambhu

doi:10.1145/2078856.2078860

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“…Information Systems is a domain similar to Information Science but mainly concentrated on applications of IT in organizations and business houses with the focus of systems analysis, designing and complete system studies. As noted that IT is composed of different subjects and among these, Software Technology is most common and popular [10], [17], [18]. And thus there is an available branch on Software Engineering in some of the institutes.…”

Section: Information Assurance and Allied Educationmentioning

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Information Assurance into Research Level in India: The Case of Possible Research-based Degrees

Paul

Aithal

2019

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Information Assurance, in short, is also called as IA. The field is concerned with the security of information. However, additionally, it is also responsible for the different kind of contents in a different form. The field Information Assurance is very close to Information Security; however, it also deals with manual contents security. According to the Information Scientist, Information Assurance talks about the rules, regulation, framework designing and development of security of the information or contents. The field Information Technology is growing rapidly and different fields have been incorporated into this viz. Database Technology, Web Technology, Network Technology, Software Technology, Multimedia Technology, etc. The applications of Information Technology into different fields, sectors, areas are called Information Science (IS). This branch is closest to the Society and Community and responsible for Social Development; additionally, it talks about manual information-related activities. Hence, Information Assurance as deals with both Computing and Manual content security, so it is considered as a branch of Information Assurance. Internationally many universities have started degree programs in the field. India also holds a large number of Higher Educational Institutes and offers a variety of UG, PG and Research Degrees. Even in recent past few universities have started some of the specialized PhD and research degrees. But still, there is an absence in Information Assurance academic program in India including PhD Degree. This paper is a kind of theoretical framework in response to the potentiality of PhD and research-based degrees in the field of Information Assurance and allied areas.

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Section: Information Assurance and Allied Educationmentioning

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Information Assurance into Research Level in India: The Case of Possible Research-based Degrees

Paul

Aithal

2019

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“…This section summarizes prior efforts in global cybersecurity education, based heavily on three ITiCSE working group reports. The first of these reports explored the state of cybersecurity education in 2009 [17]; the second outlined draft curricular guidelines in 2010 [16]; and the third examined cybersecurity education in institutions offering two-and four-year degrees in 2011 [45]. Note that these earlier reports are written in terms of "information assurance," the term commonly used for cybersecurity in that time period.…”

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“…The 2011 report [45] examined a broad set of undergraduate cybersecurity two-and four-year programs at college levels. Within the US, the group focused on the challenge of articulation between twoand four-year programs; articulation refers to agreements between two-year and four-year programs to allow for smoother transfer of students.…”

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Global perspectives on cybersecurity education for 2030: a case for a meta-discipline

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Impagliazzo

Raj

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Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Information security has been an area of research and teaching within various computing disciplines in higher education almost since the beginnings of modern computers. The need for security in computing curricula has steadily grown over this period. Recently, with an emerging global crisis, because of the limitations of security within the nascent information technology infrastructure, the field of "cybersecurity" is emerging with international interest and support. Recent evolution of cybersecurity shows that it has begun to take shape as a true academic perspective, as opposed to simply being a training domain for certain specialized jobs. This report starts from the premise that cybersecurity is a "meta-discipline." That is, cybersecurity is used as an aggregate label for a wide variety of similar disciplines, much in the same way that the terms "engineering" and "computing" are commonly used. Thus, cybersecurity should be formally interpreted as a meta-discipline with a variety of disciplinary variants, also characterized through a generic competency model. The intention is that this simple organizational concept will improve the clarity with which the field matures, resulting in improved standards and goals for many different types of cybersecurity programs.

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“…Transfer of Courses and Summer Bridge Program: While [18] provides some general guidance for identifying courses that can possibly be transferred from a community college to a four-year institution in the context of establishing pathways in Cybersecurity, in practice the courses of the respective degree programs must be evaluated in greater detail. Courses at the community college which generally lend themselves more easily for transfer to the four-year institution are science courses (such as Physics, Chemistry, or Biology), calculus courses, or courses to meet general education requirements (e.g., Sociology, Psychology, English Composition, History).…”

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“…In the United States, one possible approach that is met with increasing interest is that of recognizing the role of community colleges and thus the establishing and fostering of pathways in Cybersecurity between community colleges and four-year institutions (e.g., [4,16,12]). The feasibility of such pathways from a curricular perspective has been studied in theory (e.g., [18]). Furthermore, a number of national centers have been established in recent years to foster Cybersecurity education on the community college level, to build partnerships, and to develop curricular guidelines and standards (e.g., [10,8,5,3,14]).…”

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Pathways in Cybersecurity: Translating Theory into Practice

Wetzel

2017

Information Security Education for a Global Digital Society

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In this paper, we report on a pilot project which was geared to explore the possibility of enabling a pathway in Cybersecurity education between community colleges and four-year institutions where students enter the four-year institution with Junior status after graduating from the community college with a suitable Associate in Science degree. The pilot was carried out in the context of the Cybercorps R : Scholarship for Service program, also focusing on exploring whether it is possible to support students pursuing such a pathway through the Cybercorps R : Scholarship for Service program and successfully placing them in the government to complete their internship and post-graduation service requirements. The pilot included two students from a community college pursuing an Associate in Science degree in Computer Science/Engineering and then transferring to the Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity degree program at a nearby four-year institution. This paper reviews the various components of the pilot project, discusses challenges and opportunities, and provides some suggestions for future directions from the perspective of the four-year institution.

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Information assurance education in two- and four-year institutions

Cited by 19 publications

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Information Assurance into Research Level in India: The Case of Possible Research-based Degrees

Information Assurance into Research Level in India: The Case of Possible Research-based Degrees

Global perspectives on cybersecurity education for 2030: a case for a meta-discipline

Pathways in Cybersecurity: Translating Theory into Practice

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