Opportunities and Challenges of Cybersecurity for Undergraduate Information Systems Programs

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Author(s): Shouhong Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, USA)and Hai Wang (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 22
Source title: Research Anthology on Advancements in Cybersecurity Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch017

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics

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This article investigates the opportunities and challenges of cybersecurity for information systems (IS) programs and proposes a curriculum structure of cybersecurity track for IS programs. The study has collected data from eighty-two course websites of thirteen institutions at the graduate level and sixteen institutions at the undergraduate level as well as twenty descriptions of cybersecurity jobs posted on the internet. The collected qualitative data has been analyzed from the from the perspective of IS education. The findings indicate that the topics of cybersecurity management and essential cybersecurity technology are relevant to the IS discipline. The article suggests that these topics can be the components of two cybersecurity courses offered by IS programs to meet the demands and challenges of cybersecurity.

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