Teaching Information Security in Business Schools: Current Practices and a Proposed Direction for the Future

Cram, W. Alec; D’Arcy, John

doi:10.17705/1cais.03903

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“…In the closely related field of general business, a few theorists have recommended integrating cybersecurity education within the business curriculum since cybersecurity is interdisciplinary (Cram & D'Arcy, 2016;McGettrick, Cassel, Dark, Hawthorne, & Impagliazzo, 2014). Accordingly, privacy issues can be incorporated in marketing/social media courses, while forensic accounting can be discussed in an accounting course (Yang, 2016;Yang & Wen, 2017).…”

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Exploring the Sufficiency of Undergraduate Students’ Cybersecurity Knowledge Within Top Universitie’ Entrepreneurship Programs

2019

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Small businesses using technology are at risk of cyberattacks and often do not have adequate cybersecurity knowledge, budgets, or dedicated security staff. Attackers know small businesses are accordingly vulnerable. An attack can result in severe losses or the closure of business, making this knowledge critical. Businesses ownership can originate with newly graduated entrepreneurship students, so that sample is selected for this study to determine if cybersecurity knowledge is gained through undergraduate curriculum. The preliminary findings of the study imply that entrepreneurship education might be enhanced with coursework that would help future small businesses avoid becoming victims of cyberattacks.

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Exploring the Sufficiency of Undergraduate Students’ Cybersecurity Knowledge Within Top Universitie’ Entrepreneurship Programs

2019

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“…Relation of future aspects of information security with cybernetics 4 Cram and D'Arcy (2016) This paper touches many future aspects of information security like feedback, ethics, threshold and organizational security Wiener has explained the philosophy of feedback (Valentinov, 2017) and threshold in Chapter 2 "Progress and entropy" of book "The human use of human beings". Wiener has described the philosophy of ethics and organization in Chapter 8 titled "information language and society" of book "Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine" The philosophy described in these chapters can provide an initial boost to important future aspects of information security like ethics, feedback, threshold and organizational security 5 Thomas and Dawn (2016) In this article, theoretical domains like communication theory, belief model, the cognitive study of user behavior, persuasion theory have been considered as important future aspects of information security…”

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Relation between cybernetics and information security: from Norbert Wiener’s perspectives

Anjaria

Mishra

2017

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Purpose -Nowadays, to design the information security mechanism for computing and communication systems, there are various approaches available like cryptographic approach, game-theoretic approach, quantitative-qualitative analysis-based approach, cognitive-behavioral approach, digital forensic-based approach and swarm computing-based approach. The contemporary research in these various fields is independent in nature. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between these various approaches to information security and cybernetics.Design/methodology/approach -To investigate the relationship between information security mechanisms and cybernetics, Norbert Wiener's concepts and philosophy of the cybernetics have been used in the present work. For a detailed study, concepts, techniques and philosophy of the cybernetics have been extracted from the books of Norbert Wiener titled "The human use of human beings" and "Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine".Findings -By revisiting the concepts of the cybernetics from the information security perspectives, it has been found that the aspects of information security and the aspects of cybernetics have great bonding.Originality/value -The present paper demonstrates how bonding between cybernetics and information security can be used to solve some of the complex research challenges in information security area.

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“…No one case will satisfy all of the objectives, but the framework provided gives educators an ability to tailor their approach to the needs of the individual course.To encourage accountancy faculty to include cyber-security topics in the mainstream accounting curriculum, we look at a recent study byCram and D'Arcy (2016), who examined information security courses to determine the topical categories related to information security that are commonly taught at the collegiate level. Building on that, we note that many of these topics can be introduced and examined in an accounting setting as shown in Error!…”

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Don't Reveal Your Ignorance: Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum.

Janvrin¹

2020

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In today's business world, cybersecurity is critical to success for all leaders including accountants. Interestingly, despite increased regulatory and professional emphasis, most accounting curricula limit cybersecurity coverage to accounting information systems courses. We argue that cybersecurity concepts should be introduced at all levels of the accounting curriculum. We provide six short, open-ended cases highlighting the increasing need to incorporate cybersecurity into the accounting curriculum. One or more of the cases can be used in introductory, core, and/or advanced accounting classes to emphasize the importance of cybersecurity for accounting students. The cases can be worked as individual assignments or in student groups. These cases address cybersecurity disclosure issues in financial reporting, the impact of a cybersecurity breach in financial audit, the risks to tax preparers of storing personally identifiable information, calculating and evaluating costs of cybersecurity breaches, and examining cybersecurity disclosures in 10-Ks.

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Teaching Information Security in Business Schools: Current Practices and a Proposed Direction for the Future

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring the Sufficiency of Undergraduate Students’ Cybersecurity Knowledge Within Top Universitie’ Entrepreneurship Programs

Exploring the Sufficiency of Undergraduate Students’ Cybersecurity Knowledge Within Top Universitie’ Entrepreneurship Programs

Relation between cybernetics and information security: from Norbert Wiener’s perspectives

Don't Reveal Your Ignorance: Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum.

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