Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The number of open cybersecurity jobs exceeds the number of qualified graduates, resulting in a workforce gap. A framework exploring this has proposed the problem has three dimensions: program offering, student pipeline and program capacity. Followup work has developed tools for measuring progress on program offerings with a cybersecurity education maturity model (CEMM). This work builds on the CEMM by first strengthening the model by connecting it to learning-network theory. The model is then applied to evaluate cybersecurity offerings in public universities across three states. Using the average CEMM scores across each state, the impact of state level investment is explored. We find that the states exhibited statistically significant differences in level of cybersecurity education maturity, and can identify specific years in which states made investments. We then argue for the importance of such quantitative measures and assessment of academic offerings in the efforts to remediate the workforce gap problem.
Authors: Kreider, Christopher, Cheney, Lonnie E, Mero, Patrick
Institution: Christopher Newport University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6996947066
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