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WISE 2020: Information Security Education. Information Security in Action pp 32–45Cite as

Education for the Multifaith Community of Cybersecurity

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The demand for cybersecurity professionals is growing. Many cybersecurity academic and training programmes exist to prepare students and professionals for these jobs. The programmes cover many areas of cybersecurity with considerable overlap, but with different emphases. Some are highly technical and cover little non-technical; others do the opposite. Cybersecurity jobs typically require some technical knowledge, an ability to place security problems in a larger context, and an ability to communicate this information effectively and convincingly. The problem with treating technical and non-technical subjects as silos rather than recognizing the two are tightly related and need to be taught together. This paper shows how seven common cybersecurity frameworks and ten masters’ courses from the UK and US cover both technical and non-technical content. It examines the balance of technical courses, non-technical courses, and courses that mix both technical and non-technical material. It argues that these topics cannot be siloed, and their balance is critical to meeting the goals of the frameworks and programmes.

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Acknowledgements

Matt Bishop gratefully acknowledges the support of grants DGE-1303211 and DGE-1934279 from the National Science Foundation to the University of California at Davis. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Steven Furnell

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Matt Bishop

  3. Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Steven Furnell

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  2. University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Suné Von Solms

  3. EU Agency for Cybersecurity, Maroussi, Greece

    Marianthi Theocharidou

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Furnell, S., Bishop, M. (2020). Education for the Multifaith Community of Cybersecurity. In: Drevin, L., Von Solms, S., Theocharidou, M. (eds) Information Security Education. Information Security in Action. WISE 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 579. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59291-2_3

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