PREPARING STUDENTS FOR SECURITY CERTIFICATION: AN EXPLORATORY EXPERIMENT
Issues in Information Systems · 2016
Nowadays Cybersecurity becomes a paramount issue for companies and government.Individuals with practical security skill are in high demand on job market.Many IS educators agree to incorporate Security Certification objectives into academic curriculum, because Security Certification may be potentially useful to enhance students' resume and job prospect.In this descriptive study, we report the concrete actions we undertook to prepare students for Security Certification.First, we documented how we prepared and passed CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam.Next, we presented our exploratory experiment to teach students to be prepared for the exam.Due to the lack of financial resources, we had to resort to a labor-intensive approach to manually collect free online Security+ practice questions and transform them into Blackboard quizzes.This study will be helpful to instructors planning to teach students to pass Security+ under very low budget.