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Academic institutions educate future Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection (ISCIP) professionals, offering expedient and broad knowledge of the field. As industry often demands higher productivity and stronger specialization, several organizations (academic, governmental, industrial) considered the use of a Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), to serve as a tool that appropriately groups together the essential knowledge of this field. In this paper, we review the content of current ISCIP curricula, we define the necessary skills of an ISCIP Professional – as indicated and suggested by the industry – and form a multidisciplinary CBK of the ISCIP field.
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Theoharidou, M., Stougiannou, E., Gritzalis, D. (2007). A CBK for Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection. In: Futcher, L., Dodge, R. (eds) Fifth World Conference on Information Security Education. WISE 2007. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 237. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73269-5_7
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