Monday, August 14, 2017

Ditching Textbooks and Teaching Cybersecurity Via News Headlines: Modern Times Call for Modern Measures

In a constantly changing field like cybersecurity, nothing stays the same for long. And as Jim Lewis, a senior VP at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has learned first hand, this makes teaching about cybersecurity a challenge. Lewis this spring started teaching a section of a social engineering course to cybersecurity majors at the U.S. Naval Academy. Once it became apparent that the textbooks available to support the course were all several years old, Lewis opted to ditch the traditional approach and adopt a different source of reading materials: daily newspapers. And why…

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