Top 10 hands-on cybersecurity exercises

  • Authors:
  • Richard Weiss;Jens Mache;Erik Nilsen

  • Affiliations:
  • The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA;Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR;Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

As security becomes a more important part of the computer science curriculum, instructors may need some guidance in choosing which exercises to include in their classes, whether these are security classes or not. Students learn best when they have hands-on experience. This paper describes approximately 20 examples of laboratory exercises which we used in undergraduate classes at two liberal arts colleges. Students evaluated them in a survey at the end of each class. We present the results of that survey and the features of those exercises with strengths and weaknesses from the instructors' perspectives.