Special Session: ACM Joint Task Force on Cyber Education - eScholarship
Diana L. Burley, Matt Bishop, Elizabeth K. Hawthorne, Siddharth Kaza, Scott H. Buck, Lynn A. Futcher · 2017
Special Session: ACM Joint Task Force on Cyber Education Diana Burley Matt Bishop Elizabeth Hawthorne George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development 44983 Knoll Square, suite 147 Ashburn, VA 20147 University of California, Davis Department of Computer Science One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 Union County College STEM Divison-Computer Science 1033 Springfield Avenue Cranford, NJ 07016 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Siddharth Kaza Towson University Department of Computer and Information Sciences 8000 York Road Towson, MD 21252 Scott Buck Lynn Futcher Intel Corporation 2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University School of Information and Communication Technology Summerstrand Campus (North), R149 [email protected] [email protected] CCS Concepts • Social and professional topics ~ Computing education • Social and professional topics ~ Model curricula • Social and professional topics ~ Computing education programs • Social and professional topics ~ Accreditation Keywords Curriculum; Cybersecurity education; security education; cyber sciences 1. SUMMARY In this special session, members of the ACM Joint Task Force on Cyber Education to Develop Undergraduate Curricular Guidance will provide an overview of the task force mission, objectives, and work plan. After the overview, task force members will engage session participants in the curricular development process. 2. BACKGROUND In the context of computer security and information assurance, cyberscience is a computing-based discipline involving technology, people, and processes aligned in a way to enable “assured operations” in the presence of risks and adversaries. It involves the creation, operation, analysis, and testing of computer systems (including network and communication systems) designed to be secure, as well as the study of how to employ operations, reasonable risk taking, and risk mitigations to further that design goal. It is an interdisciplinary course of study, and includes aspects of law, policy, human factors, ethics, risk management, and other topics directly related to the success of the activities and operations dependent on such systems, often in the context of an adversary. [email protected] Recent reports [1, 2] have pointed to the need for developing curricular standards for cybersecurity education. Currently the 2013 ACM Curricular Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Science (CS2013) [3] treats information assurance and security (IAS) as a specific knowledge area as well as material that spans other knowledge areas. The IAS knowledge area explores aspects of information assurance and security in depth; in other knowledge areas the information assurance and security material is tied to that particular area. Unfortunately, those curricular guidelines do not treat computer security and information assurance as a cyberscience. The goal of the ACM Joint Task Force on Cyber Education is to develop undergraduate curricular guidance in information assurance and security that teaches computer security and information assurance so students see it as a cyberscience. 3. OBJECTIVE The objective of this special session is to introduce the work of the ACM Joint Task Force on Cyber Education to Develop Undergraduate Curricular Guidance and to engage the computer science education community in the curricular development process. The session will communicate the objectives and status of the development work, and elicit input from community members. Task force members will engage session participants through general session presentations and small group discussions. In the general session, task force members will highlight the joint task force members and objectives, summarize the work of the Cyber Education Project and how the joint task force will leverage this work, and will provide a roadmap for the development process. This session will provide an opportunity for follow up on the Cyber Education Project’s Learning Outcomes Working Group session held at the 2015 SIGCSE Technical