Asee peer logo

The Development, Assessment, and Advancement of a Student-Centered Cyber Risk Management Course

Download Paper |

Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

Tagged Division

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Page Count

19

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44091

Permanent URL

https://strategy.asee.org/44091

Download Count

136

Request a correction

Paper Authors

biography

Joseph Benin United States Coast Guard Academy

visit author page

CAPT Benin is a graduate of the Coast Guard Academy (BSEE), having served as the Regimental Honor Officer and Chairman of the Cadet Standards of Conduct Board. He then served as the Electrical and Electronics Officer aboard the USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) completing his Engineer-Officer-In-Training (EOIT) qualifications. In 2005, he was selected as a member of the Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff (PCTS) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. CAPT Benin focuses on the areas of computer networks, programming, and security. Dr. Benin has previously served as the Director of Academic Advising and presently is the chair of the USCGA Cyber Council and Cyber Systems Program Coordinator.

visit author page

biography

William Randall

visit author page

William Randall spent over 30 years in Coast Guard C4IT/C5I including serving as the senior civilian for the engineering, development, and protection of the Coast Guard's IT infrastructure at the Coast Guard's Telecommunication and Information Systems Com

visit author page

author page

Angela G Jackson-Summers United States Coast Guard Academy

Download Paper |

Abstract

Managing risk is a key component to achieving a strong cyber security posture. Practitioners must consider a combination of human, technology, and policy-based factors when establishing their postures. To help students understand these interdependencies, we designed and developed a course to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate these in a real-world environment. Students have gained an appreciation for various technical and managerial concepts related to cyber security and demonstrated the knowledge gained by developing submissions to the annual Maritime Cyber Risk Symposium student poster contest. This paper describes the multi-year developmental journey in standing up a Cyber Risk Management course linked to National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Education knowledge units, ABET outcomes for cybersecurity computing programs, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology framework and guidance. It includes student-centered individual classroom learning, project-based team learning, and team development of scholarly work for submission and external evaluation. The efficacy of this approach after two offerings is based upon student feedback, ABET and NCAE assessment, and external results. The paper concludes with how we see the course evolving as the cyber systems major evolves. Teaching cyber-focused concepts in an interdisciplinary manner is critical and, in that spirit, the teaching of this course is moving from the School of Engineering and Cyber Systems to the School of Leadership and Management.

Benin, J., & Randall, W., & Jackson-Summers, A. G. (2023, June), The Development, Assessment, and Advancement of a Student-Centered Cyber Risk Management Course Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44091

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2023 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015