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Designing a Cybersecurity Curriculum Library: Best Practices from Digital Library Research

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Abstract

The global cybersecurity crisis has forced academic institutions to expand cybersecurity education, and accessible, quality cybersecurity curriculum is needed. The CLARK cybersecurity curriculum resource library is a large-scale Design Science Research project intended to address critical demands in cybersecurity. This paper focuses on the need for a living digital library, surveys current cybersecurity repositories, and discusses factors that determine the success of a digital library. We also discuss CLARK, a multifaceted solution that includes various lenses for building and sustaining a living library of cybersecurity curriculum.

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Notes

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    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula 2013. Computer Science Curricula 2013.

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    Catalyzing Computing and Cybersecurity in Community Colleges (C5).

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    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula. 2013. Computer Science Curricula 2013. ACM Press and IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2534860

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    Curriculum Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity (CSEC 2017).

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  1. Towson University, Towson, MD, USA

    Blair Taylor & Sidd Kaza

  2. Dark Enterprises, Lafayette, IN, USA

    Melissa Dark

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA

    Tommy Morris

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA

    Gilbert Peterson

  4. Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA

    Eric Imsand

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Taylor, B., Kaza, S., Dark, M. (2022). Designing a Cybersecurity Curriculum Library: Best Practices from Digital Library Research. In: Choo, KK.R., Morris, T., Peterson, G., Imsand, E. (eds) National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2021. NCS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84614-5_5

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