An Interdisciplinary Approach to Educating an Effective Cyber Security Workforce
Jane LeClair, Sherly Elizabeth Abraham, Lifang Shih · 2013
Organizations and communities are now increasingly dependent on computer networks for their daily operations, which makes the digital world both attractive and lucrative for cyber criminals. Additionally, the volume of banking and monetary transactions that occur across the Internet from devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile phones has increased immensely, further making the Internet an interesting playground for cyber criminals. Given the evolving landscape of cyber security threats, it is important to provide our workforce with ongoing training in cyber security. The protection of cyber assets requires a multipronged approach that requires the coordination of government, academia and industry. Therefore, the educational methodologies need to evolve and adapt to support the needs of people who are geographically separated and constrained by time. In this paper, the authors propose an interdisciplinary approach to cyber security education and the best practices for integrating advanced instructional technologies to online cyber security education.