Cyber Security Education: Principles and Policies

by Greg Austin (Editor)

Overview

This book investigates the goals and policy aspects of cyber security education in the light of escalating technical, social and geopolitical challenges.

The past ten years have seen a tectonic shift in the significance of cyber security education. Once the preserve of small groups of dedicated educators and industry professionals, the subject is now on the frontlines of geopolitical confrontation and business strategy. Global shortages of talent have created pressures on corporate and national policy for workforce development. Cyber Security Education offers an updated approach to the subject as we enter the next decade of technological disruption and political threats. The contributors include scholars and education practitioners from leading research and education centres in Europe, North America and Australia. This book provides essential reference points for education policy on the new social terrain of security in cyberspace and aims to reposition global debates on what education for security in cyberspace can and should mean.

This book will be of interest to students of cyber security, cyber education, international security and public policy generally, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367421915
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2020
Series:	Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Greg Austin is a Senior Fellow and leader of the Cyber, Space and Future Conflict Programme for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, while maintaining a professorial appointment at the University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

List of contributors ix

Acknowledgements xv

Abbreviations xvi

Introduction Greg Austin 1

1 History and philosophy of cyber security education William J. Caelli 8

2 Mastering the cyber security skills crisis Adam P. Henry 29

3 Beyond awareness: Reflections on meeting the interdisciplinary cyber skills demand Andrew Martin Jamie Collier 55

4 Educating future multidisciplinary cyber security teams Jean R.S. Blair Andrew O. Hall Edward Sobiesk 74

5 What the profession of cyber security needs to know and do Dan Shoemaker Anne Kohnke Ken Sigler 87

6 Creating social cyber value as the broader goal Greg Austin Glenn Withers 99

7 Education for cyber disaster response and resilience Adam P. Henry 119

8 New kinds of leadership skills for winning peace in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Daria Daniels Skodnik 133

9 Tackling the cyber skills gap: A survey of UK initiatives Monica Kaminska Jantje Silomon 147

10 Holistic cyber education Jean R.S. Blair Andrew O. Hall Edward Sobiesk 160

11 Five years of cyber security education reform in China Greg Austin Wenze Lu 173

12 Future research on the cyber security skills shortage Tommaso De Zan 194

13 Twelve dilemmas of reform in cyber security education Greg Austin 208

Index 222