Broadening Information Assurance Awareness by Gaming.
Hongmei Chi, Edward L. Jones, Jude Desti · FECS · 2010
Preparing students for future information assurance careers is critical for national security. A related challenge is to teach non-CS majors security issues and practical consumer skills. This paper attempts to address these challenges by inspiring the interest of students, preparing students to accede seamlessly into the future high-quality workforce via designing game-like hands-on labs. In addition, we present a pragmatic approach of teaching information assurance designed particularly in response to the demand for professional workforce in the digital world. In this paper, we focus on integration of information assurance concepts into a set of hands-on labs via playing games