Want to Raise Cybersecurity Awareness? Start with Future IT Professionals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07608v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:07:27 GMT
• Title: Want to Raise Cybersecurity Awareness? Start with Future IT Professionals
• Authors: Lydia Kraus, Valdemar \v{S}v\'abensk\'y, Martin Hor\'ak, Vashek Maty\'a\v{s}, Jan Vykopal, Pavel \v{C}eleda
• Abstract summary: Our university designed an innovative cybersecurity awareness course that is freely available online for students, employees, and the general public. The course offers simple, actionable steps that anyone can use to implement defensive countermeasures. To measure the course impact, we administered it to 138 computer science undergraduates within a compulsory information security and cryptography course.
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• Abstract: As cyber threats endanger everyone, from regular users to computing professionals, spreading cybersecurity awareness becomes increasingly critical. Therefore, our university designed an innovative cybersecurity awareness course that is freely available online for students, employees, and the general public. The course offers simple, actionable steps that anyone can use to implement defensive countermeasures. Compared to other resources, the course not only suggests learners what to do, but explains why and how to do it. To measure the course impact, we administered it to 138 computer science undergraduates within a compulsory information security and cryptography course. They completed the course as a part of their homework and filled out a questionnaire after each lesson. Analysis of the questionnaire responses revealed that the students valued the course highly. They reported new learning, perspective changes, and transfer to practice. Moreover, they suggested suitable improvements to the course. Based on the results, we have distilled specific insights to help security educators design similar courses. Lessons learned from this study are relevant for cybersecurity instructors, course designers, and educational managers.

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