Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: This paper puts forward a case for an educational initiative in information security atboth the undergraduate and graduate levels. Its focus is on the need for such education, the desired educational outcomes, and how the outcomes may be assessed. A basic thesis of this paper is that the goals, methods, and evaluation techniques of information and computer security are consistent with and supportive of the stated goals of engineering education and the growing movement for outcomes-based assessment in higher education. 1 Why Information Security Education is Needed Networked computing and information retrieval are considered by manyto be crucial to the wellbeing of the nation's information infrastructure [14]. The information infrastructure includes such diverse and complex applications as telecommunications, air tra c control, health care, mobile computing and electronic commerce. These applications rely on a collection of switching systems, databases, network protocols, scheduling and routing algorithms, distributed hardware, and concurrent software. These systems must work correctly and economically with guarantees of performance, availability of service, safety, and security.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1565749162