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Sat 1 Mar 2025 13:45 - 14:03 at Meeting Room 406 - Cybersecurity #2 and Edge Computing Chair(s): Steffan Hooper

To become a DHS/NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), academic institutions must satisfy several specific Knowledge Units (KUs). How they achieve this is up to the institutions. In this case study, we follow the methodology of an earlier work to demonstrate how an electronic voting (E-voting)-oriented cybersecurity curriculum, proposed by Hostler et al. [4] in 2021, maps into the DHS/NSA KUs supporting the CAE-CD designation, from two aspects: E-voting principle based topics, i.e., from theory and a plug-and-play e-voting system’s composing components, i.e., from practice. We grouped CAE-CD KUs into those required as prerequisites, closely related, related/supported, and not covered by the E-voting curriculum. Teachers can then choose which KUs they will use and teach using the parts of the E-voting-oriented curriculum they deem relevant, and in a depth they find appropriate to their educational objectives, while meeting the requirements of the selected KUs. We conclude with a discussion of how LLMs (Large Language Models) and quantum computing might be added to the E-voting-oriented curriculum.

Sat 1 Mar

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13:45 - 15:00
Cybersecurity #2 and Edge ComputingPapers at Meeting Room 406
Chair(s): Steffan Hooper University of Auckland
13:45
18m
Talk
Case Study 2: Mapping between an E-Voting Curriculum and the DHS/NSA CAE Knowledge Units
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Edwin Antonio Sanchez Indiana University Indianapolis, Muwei Zheng University of California, Davis, Matt Bishop The University of California, Davis, Xukai Zou Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
14:03
18m
Talk
Implementation of a Cryptocurrency Elective Course
Papers
Aaron Bloomfield University of Virginia
14:22
18m
Talk
Practical Cybersecurity Education: A Course Model Using Experiential Learning TheoryGlobal
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Sashank Narain University of Massachusetts Lowell, Pranathi Rayavaram University of Massachusetts Lowell, Christopher Morales-Gonzalez University of Massachusetts Lowell, Mathew Harper University of Massachusetts Lowell, Maryam Abbasalizadeh University of Massachusetts Lowell, Krishna Vellamchety Univeristy of Massachusetts Lowell, Xinwen Fu University of Massachusetts Lowell
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