Ethical Hacking Assessment as a Vehicle for Undergraduate Cyber-Security Education
Shamal Faily · Open Access Institutional Repository at Robert Gordon University (Robert Gordon University) · 2014
The need for cyber security professionals in the UK is growing, motivating the need to introduce cybersecurity at an earlier stage of an undergraduate's education. However, despite on-going interest in cybersecurity pedagogy, there has been comparatively little work exploring the role of assessment in educating future cybersecurity practitioners. This paper presents a case study on the re-design and critical evaluation of an undergraduate ethical hacking coursework assignment. The study describes how recent work in ethical hacking pedagogy informed an assignment re-design, and the revised assignment was critically analysed based on constructive alignment, student engagement, and plagiarism.