Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Cybersecurity in UK University Computing Programmes

Tom Prickett; Longzhi Yang; Alastair Irons; Keith Miller; Phil Brooke; Alan Hayes; James H Davenport; Tom Crick; Rosanne English; Joseph Maguire; Kamel Bechkoum; Andrew Jones

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Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Cybersecurity in UK University Computing Programmes

Tom Prickett^*, Longzhi Yang^*, Alastair Irons, Keith Miller, Phil Brooke, Alan Hayes, James H Davenport, Tom Crick, Rosanne English, Joseph Maguire, Kamel Bechkoum, Andrew Jones

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Developing the required cybersecurity competencies in computing-related university-level degree programmes can be challenging, across multiple aspects and dimensions. The demand for cybersecurity expertise—in the UK and internationally—is significant, but such demand is not only limited to these specialists or specialist areas; wider and deeper expertise is needed across a range of technical and cognate areas to ensure all software, systems and services are designed, developed, built, and tested securely, and indeed maintained appropriately to continue to remain secure in the future. This chapter critically examines some of these issues by exploring the challenges presented in embedding cybersecurity education within computing-related higher education programmes in the UK, and especially how professional body accreditation is increasingly shaping this demand. In particular, we present a collection of UK-based case studies on how these challenges have been successfully identified and addressed, reflecting the diversity, flexibility and inclusivity of higher education provision across the UK. Through these case studies, recommendations are formulated across the research-policy-practice continuum related to innovative and effective learning, teaching and assessment, as well as areas for future research and development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education
Editors	Leslie F. Sikos , Paul Haskell-Dowland
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	1
Pages	1-35
Number of pages	35
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031242168
ISBN (Print)	9783031242151, 9783031242182
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24216-8_1
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2023

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Prickett, T., Yang, L., Irons, A., Miller, K., Brooke, P., Hayes, A., Davenport, J. H., Crick, T., English, R., Maguire, J., Bechkoum, K., & Jones, A. (2023). Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Cybersecurity in UK University Computing Programmes. In L. F. S., & P. H.-D. (Eds.), Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education (pp. 1-35). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24216-8_1

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Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Cybersecurity in UK University Computing Programmes. / Prickett, Tom ; Yang, Longzhi; Irons, Alastair et al.
Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education. ed. / Leslie F. Sikos; Paul Haskell-Dowland. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023. p. 1-35.

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