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Defining and Measuring Key Expertise Areas in Information Security for Higher Education Students

Antti Hakkala, Jouni Isoaho, Defining and Measuring Key Expertise Areas in Information Security for Higher Education Students. In: International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2015, 1–8, INEER, 2015.

Abstract:

In this paper we discuss what kind of and what level of requirements on information security knowledge the
emerging information society poses for its citizens. By defining key topic areas of interest and mapping out
essential skill sets and knowledge areas in information security for engineering students in relation to these
requirements, we start to assemble a framework which can be used for developing information security education.
First, we divide the field of information security into subcategories and map them to different learning profiles,
based on different levels of required competence. With the help of an online learning environment, we analyze
preliminary results on measuring students' expertise and development in lower expertise levels in the context of
an entry-level course on information society and cyber security, where we piloted the framework that we have
developed. We discuss the practical arrangements of three online exams with the goal of efficiently measuring
student knowledge on information security, and present preliminary data on learning results using the first version
of this framework.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpHaIs15a,
  title = {Defining and Measuring Key Expertise Areas in Information Security for Higher Education Students},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2015},
  author = {Hakkala, Antti and Isoaho, Jouni},
  publisher = {INEER},
  pages = {1–8},
  year = {2015},
}

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