This presentation speaks to the need for Cyber-Security education to be performed at all levels of education in Jamaica (and the Caribbean) for the people to remain relevant in this field.

1. 2014
Edu ision

2.  What is Cyber-Security (CS) Education?
 Why should we provide this Education?
 Who is the target audience ?
 Curriculum for Cyber-Security
 Limitations of a Cyber-Security Curriculum
 Conclusion
 Future Work

3.  Education
Learning that enables
 Cyber-Security
Protection computers, networks, programs and data
from unintended or unauthorized access, change or
destruction, i.e. enforcing Confidentiality, Integrity,
Access (C.I.A) for the Internet.

4.  Increase in Malicious Cyber-Attacks
 Increase in internet open access
 Proliferation in social media (instagram, facebook)
 Adoption of new technologies (e.g. web bitcoins)
 Awareness levels close to real time is low
 Increase in Cyber-Security penetration
 Need for Cyber-Security Forensics

5.  Primary School Education
 High School Education
 College /Tertiary Education

6.  Curriculum at primary level education
Geared towards mobile safety and online conduct
 High School Education
Deeper in browser forensics and online tracking
 College Level /Tertiary Education
Emphasis on understanding threat models, creating
mitigation strategies and building solutions.

7.  Power up and Power down computers
 Identifying secure and insecure web pages
 Social Engineering for the Internet
 Identifying basic malicious attacks (e.g. pop ups,
script kiddies etc.)
 Reading web page instructions and terms and
conditions for using such pages.

8.  Advance Computer Networking
 Advance Digital Forensics and Incident
Response for the Internet
 Legal Policy for the Internet
 Cryptography Techniques for the Web
 Online Financial Security
 Internet Auditing and Risk Management
 Internet Governance

9.  Security is an interdisciplinary field
(many skills to hone)
 Policy adoption on security education
 Human Talent Pool of Educational Security
Experts at all levels of curriculum
 Technology Adoption

10.  Cyber-Security transformation education
initiatives at all levels of the curriculum required
 Existing National ICT initiatives lack the adequate
pool expertise at all requisite levels of curricula.
 As Internet penetration increases - a global intiative
on Cyber-Security is imperative and the Jamaican
context requirement is no less.
 Tertiary Level training to inform tertiary level
training and lower level curricula is required.

11.  Cyber-Security transformation education
initiatives at all levels of the curriculum required
 National ICT security policy initiatives that speak to
skills based initiatives to provide short term,
medium term and long term Security Talent
Management Pools
 Tertiary Level training to inform tertiary and lower
level curricula

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