 "ISACA's new teaching materials help professors prepare cybersecurity courses")
Global IT association ISACA has released new teaching materials to help professors prepare students for work in a cybersecurity position. The teaching materials include the Cybersecurity Student Book, presentation and teaching notes.
The ISACA teaching materials cover: threat and vulnerability assessment; incident response; threat, attack and defense models; cyber law legal principles; and security policy design, development, management and implementation.
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Professors and other instructors can use the educational materials to present cybersecurity topics that can affect all enterprises worldwide, according to ISACA.
The materials also align with COBIT 5, the internationally recognised business framework that helps companies better govern and manage their information and technology.
“It is important for students in this field to understand that cybersecurity is now an integral part of global business,” said Matthew Liotine, Ph.D., CBCP, CHS-III, CSSBB, MBCI, professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and chair of ISACA’s Academic Program Subcommittee.
“ISACA has designed these teaching materials to help equip students with a body of knowledge that can be applied to meet the ever-growing information security challenges faced by today’s businesses.”
The teaching notes on threats, incident response and security policies are intended for use in undergraduate classes to introduce students to cybersecurity topics. The student book is designed for students who have a basic understanding of internetworked systems and common terms used in information systems and information technology.
These teaching materials are for ISACA academic advocates to use free of charge as part of their curricula.