How Is Cybersecurity Taught and How Is It Backed by Research?
More than 17,300 new security vulnerabilities were discovered in 2019. What is more, by 2021, the annual damages from cybercrime will cost the world a staggering $6 trillion.
With the globally rising importance of combating cyber threats, the cybersecurity workforce shortage is growing as well. In 2019, 4 million jobs that required cybersecurity expertise were unfilled.
Unfilled cybersecurity job positions globally.
Source: https://www.isc2.org/Research/2019-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Study
In this situation, training more cybersecurity professionals is crucial. New curricula, courses, and training materials are created to fight the skill gap. However, cybersecurity includes many concepts, which can be taught in different ways and contexts. Therefore, we set on a journey to understand the current advances in cybersecurity education research and practice.
We examined 71 research papers published at two leading education conferences, ACM SIGCSE and ACM ITiCSE, from 2010 to 2019. The papers discuss cybersecurity courses, tools, exercises, and teaching approaches. For each paper, we mapped five aspects:
Our results provide orientation in the area, a synthesis of trends, and implications for further research. Therefore, they are relevant for instructors, researchers, and anyone new in the field of cybersecurity education.
In the C4e project, we are building upon these results to research more effective methods of cybersecurity training. If you are interested in cybersecurity, follow us on our website: https://c4e.cz/.
Valdemar Švábenský, Jan Vykopal, Pavel Čeleda, April 2020
For this publication, we received the 3rd best paper award at the ACM SIGCSE conference. This prestigious conference is the largest venue in the world that focuses on computing education research and practice. In 2019, it marked its 50th anniversary with almost 2000 attendees.
Valdemar Švábenský, Jan Vykopal, and Pavel Čeleda. 2020. What Are Cybersecurity Education Papers About? A Systematic Literature Review of SIGCSE and ITiCSE Conferences. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366816
We enhance a definition of metric space, which is the most often used generic model of the pairwise similarity of complex objects, such as multimedia. The novel definition includes a small amount of information about the addressed data and allows to improve many contemporary techniques for efficient data processing.
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