Experiences with practice-focused undergraduate security education

  • Authors:
  • Robert L. Fanelli;Terrence J. O,Connor

  • Affiliations:
  • United States Military Academy, West Point, New York;United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

  • Venue:
  • CSET'10 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Cyber security experimentation and test
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The combination of competitive security exercises and hands-on learning represents a powerful approach for teaching information system security. Although creating and maintaining such a course can be difficult, the benefits to learning are worthwhile. Our undergraduate Information Assurance course is practice-focused and makes substantial use of competitive exercises, such as the National Security Agency Cyber Defense Exercise, to promote learning. We recount experiences and lessons learned from creating and conducting this course.