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Cybersecurity Program Accreditation: Benefits and Challenges

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SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287325

Published: 22 February 2019 Publication History

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The Curricular Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity (CSEC 2017) released by the Joint Task Force of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, AIS and IFIP have begun to define the academic field of cybersecurity. Increasing numbers of institutions are now offering full-fledged undergraduate cybersecurity degree programs. However, as the CSEC 2017 guidelines do not define what constitutes a standalone undergraduate cybersecurity degree, the computing community needs to agree on parameters of what such a degree ought to be. To this end, ABET has created flexible accreditation criteria for cybersecurity programs guided extensively by CSEC 2017 and community input. These criteria were used to conduct pilot accreditation visits of four distinct cybersecurity programs in 2017-18. This panel discusses benefits, challenges, and costs of cybersecurity program accreditation. The panelists, who represent the first four ABET-accredited cybersecurity programs, will discuss major curricular features of their programs, their motivation for participating in the pilot accreditation, the effort in preparing for accreditation, and the benefits anticipated both for their programs and the larger computing community due to program accreditation

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SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2019

1364 pages

ISBN:9781450358903

DOI:10.1145/3287324

General Chairs:
Elizabeth K. Hawthorne
Union County College, USA
,
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
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Program Chairs:
Sarah Heckman
North Carolina State University, USA
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Jian Zhang
Texas Woman's University, USA

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