Abstract

The paper proposes a novel index to classify how well UK Computer Science courses articulate cybersecurity-related content through their course/module pages. The aim of this work is to raise awareness among British Universities to pay more attention to include and standardize cybersecurity content in computer science courses. Our results show that 80% of analyzed courses scored 1 or 2-stars on a 5-Stars scale. The results also suggest the need for a formal delivery of cybersecurity content from the first year of the courses and possibly in a collaborative manner with the British Computer Society (BCS). To emphasize cybersecurity education in mitigating security lapses, the analogy is: it is better if most people know how to use a match than to train many fire-fighters.

摘要

该论文提出了一个新的索引，对英国计算机科学课程通过其课程/模块页面表达网络安全相关内容的程度进行分类。这项工作的目的是提高英国大学的意识，以更加关注在计算机科学课程中包含和标准化网络安全内容。我们的结果表明，80% 的分析课程在 5 星级标准上获得 1 或 2 星级。结果还表明需要从课程的第一年开始正式交付网络安全内容，并可能与英国计算机协会 (BCS) 合作。为了强调减少安全失误的网络安全教育，类比是：如果大多数人知道如何使用火柴比培训许多消防员更好。