Implementing Cybersecurity Exercises for Teaching Information Security

Abstract

To accommodate student demand and close the skills gap in the workplace, many colleges have created—or are in the process of creation—new courses or degree programs in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity encompasses extensive topics, which can be presented and taught in different ways. To complement Principles of Information Security and Computer Security courses, this paper presents cyber security exercises on various of the topics covered, taking an extra dimension to the students’ education, in which they can apply what they’ve learned from the materials of the educators. Supplemented by presentations, examples, and detailed solutions to the main exercises, the approach to the exercises, are delivered from the objective of presenting a practical way to teach information security and computer security while staying in the technical specifications and depth of the courses. Key Terms - Computer-Security, Cyber Security-Exercise, Education, Information-Security.