What is Information Technology's Role in Cybersecurity?
| Title | What is Information Technology's Role in Cybersecurity? |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Blair, Jean, Sobiesk, Edward, Ekstrom, Joseph J., Parrish, Allen |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education |
| Date Published | September 2016 |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-4452-4 |
| Keywords | Collaboration, composability, cybersecurity education, cybersecurity roles, Human Behavior, Metrics, multi-discipline cybersecurity education, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability |
| Abstract | This panel will discuss and debate what role(s) the information technology discipline should have in cybersecurity. Diverse viewpoints will be considered including current and potential ACM curricular recommendations, current and potential ABET and NSA accreditation criteria, the emerging cybersecurity discipline(s), consideration of government frameworks, the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to cybersecurity, and what aspects of cybersecurity should be under information technology's purview. |
| URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978192.2978208 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2978192.2978208 |
| Citation Key | blair_what_2016 |