Information security across disciplines

Authors:
Gabriele H. Meiselwitz
Affiliations:
Towson University, Towson, MD, USA
Venue:
SIGITE '08 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper describes a general education course in information security targeting all majors. A steady increase in security incidents in work and personal computing environments requires a trained workforce to respond to these incidents. In addition to educating computer professionals, undergraduate students of all disciplines should have the opportunity to be exposed to issues regarding computer security and forensics. This course addresses the understanding of information security across the disciplines, and has the goal to provide students with basic skills for identification of, prevention of, and response to security incidents. Students in the course completed a questionnaire assessing their security knowledge and skills in the beginning and at the end of the course. The paper concludes with a summary of data collected over three semesters.