TY - GEN
T1 - A cyber security discovery program
T2 - 4th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2014
AU - Konak, Abdullah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - As our society increasingly depends on information systems, it is critical for government and private organizations to have access to a talented pool of individuals who are skilled in confronting threats to information security, responding to emergencies, protecting vital information technology assets, and helping to create policies that ensure the privacy of individuals. However, the educational pipeline of the information security workforce is not promising. Particularly, minorities and women constitute a very small percent of the information security workforce. In this paper, we present Cyber Security Discovery Day, a day-long cryptography workshop for middle school students. The overall objective of the workshop program is to introduce students to information security career pathways through informal learning experiences. The workshop program includes many educational as well as fun hands-on activities.
AB - As our society increasingly depends on information systems, it is critical for government and private organizations to have access to a talented pool of individuals who are skilled in confronting threats to information security, responding to emergencies, protecting vital information technology assets, and helping to create policies that ensure the privacy of individuals. However, the educational pipeline of the information security workforce is not promising. Particularly, minorities and women constitute a very small percent of the information security workforce. In this paper, we present Cyber Security Discovery Day, a day-long cryptography workshop for middle school students. The overall objective of the workshop program is to introduce students to information security career pathways through informal learning experiences. The workshop program includes many educational as well as fun hands-on activities.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISECon.2014.6891029
DO - 10.1109/ISECon.2014.6891029
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908077699
T3 - ISEC 2014 - 4th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
BT - ISEC 2014 - 4th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 8 March 2014 through 8 March 2014
ER -