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Innovations in Cybersecurity Education

  • Discusses various techniques, methods, and approaches adopted by cybersecurity experts in the field
  • Provides detailed explanation of the cybersecurity concepts that are aptly reinforced by practical examples
  • Includes a road map of future trends that are suitable for innovative security education and training

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Student Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Cybersecurity Awareness Games

      • David Thornton, Falynn Turley
      Pages 3-17
    3. SMAD: A Configurable and Extensible Low-Level System Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Framework

      • Basel Sababa, Karlen Avogian, Ioanna Dionysiou, Harald Gjermundrod
      Pages 19-38
    4. Thinking Outside the Box: Using Escape Room Games to Increase Interest in Cyber Security

      • Suzanne Mello-Stark, Mary Ann VanValkenburg, Emily Hao
      Pages 39-53
    5. Information Visualization as a Method for Cybersecurity Education

      • Antonio González-Torres, Mónica Hernández-Campos, Jeferson González-Gómez, Vetria L. Byrd, Paul Parsons
      Pages 55-70
  3. Curriculum Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Ideologies and Issues for Teaching Blockchain Cybersecurity in Management and Computer Science

      • Kenneth David Strang, Ferdinand Che, Narasimha Rao Vajjhala
      Pages 109-126
    3. Early Work Vis-à-Vis Current Trends in Internet of Things Security

      • Pabak Indu, Souvik Bhattacharyya
      Pages 127-156
  4. Faculty and Professional Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Cyber Security Assessment Education for E-Governance Systems

      • Rajan Gupta, Saibal K. Pal, Sunil K. Muttoo
      Pages 181-212
    3. Flexible Access Control over Privacy-Preserving Cloud Data Processing

      • Wenxiu Ding, Xinren Qian, Rui Hu, Zheng Yan, Robert H. Deng
      Pages 231-255
  5. Laboratory Enhancements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
    2. Cybersecurity Scenario Builder and Retrieval Toolkit

      • Guillermo Francia III, Tirthankar Ghosh, Gregory Hall, Eman El-Sheikh
      Pages 285-301
    3. Teaching Cyber Security Through Distance Learning with International Students

      • Krzysztof Cabaj, Luca Caviglione, Patrick Georgi, Jörg Keller, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Andreas Schaffhauser
      Pages 303-324

About this book

This book focuses on a wide range of innovations related to Cybersecurity Education which include: curriculum development, faculty and professional development, laboratory enhancements, community outreach, and student learning. The book includes topics such as: Network Security, Biometric Security, Data Security, Operating Systems Security, Security Countermeasures, Database Security, Cloud Computing Security, Industrial Control and Embedded Systems Security, Cryptography, and Hardware and Supply Chain Security. The book introduces the concepts, techniques, methods, approaches and trends needed by cybersecurity specialists and educators for keeping current their security knowledge. Further, it provides a glimpse of future directions where cybersecurity techniques, policies, applications, and theories are headed. The book is a rich collection of carefully selected and reviewed manuscripts written by diverse cybersecurity experts in the listed fields and edited by prominent cybersecurityresearchers and specialists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, USA

    Kevin Daimi

  • University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA

    Guillermo Francia III

About the editors

Kevin Daimi received his Ph.D. from the University of Cranfield, England. He has a long academic and industry experience. His research interests include Computer and Network Security with emphasis on vehicle network security, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Computer Science and Software Engineering Education. He has published a number of papers on vehicle security. He is the editor of Computer and Network Security Essentials book, which was published by Springer. He has been chairing the annual International Conference on Security and Management (SAM) since 2012. Kevin is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’10) in Recognition and Appreciation of hisLeadership, Service and Research Contributions to the Field of Network Security. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Guillermo A. Francia, III received his BS in Mechanical Engineering degree from Mapua Tech. His Ph.D. in Computer Science is from New Mexico Tech. Before joining Jacksonville State University (JSU), he was the chairman of the Computer Science department at Kansas Wesleyan University. Dr. Francia is a recipient of numerous grants. His projects have been funded by prestigious institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Microsoft Corporation. In 1996, Dr. Francia received one of the five national awards for Innovators in Higher Education from Microsoft Corporation. Dr. Francia served as a Fulbright scholar to Malta in 2007 and a Fulbright Cybersecurity research scholar to the United Kingdomin 2017. Before joining the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida (UWF), Dr. Francia served as the Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance and held a Distinguished Professor position at JSU. Currently, he is Professor and Faculty Scholar at UWF.

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