Baking security into your curriculum

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Baking security into your curriculum

• Kurt D. Fenstermacher
• Management Information Systems

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MIS _at_ Arizona

• Who we are
• Security last year
• Security today
• Security tomorrow

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Past courses on security

• No courses on security since 2000
• Why not?
• Faculty resources
• All things to all people curriculum
• Surveyed industry representatives
• 1 issue business continuity

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Security today

• New course this semester
• Organizations, Privacy, and Security Keeping
  secrets in the 21st Century
• Cross-listed in MIS, Public Administration
  Policy (also in Eller), and Political Science
• Mix of backgrounds with varying technical skills
• Jigsaw pedagogy
• Why now?

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Course philosophy

• Our perspective
• Writing secure computer programs
• Cant bolt on security to an existing app bake
  it in
• Creating secure organizations
• Cant bolt on security, have to bake it in
• Two constituencies
• Convincing technical students that non-technical
  issues are important
• Making non-technical students comfortable

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Security tomorrow

• Revamped MS curriculum
• New course on security and business continuity
• No course on networking
• New center

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Center on Security, Information, and Governance

• CSIG summary

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Introducing security into your curriculum

• Need a champion
• Infiltrate curriculum
• Consider adding a certificate program
• Executive education

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Questions or comments?

• Reach me at KurtF_at_Eller.Arizona.edu or (520)
  621-4016