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INCUBATE (INjecting and Assessing Cybersecurity edUcation with little internal suBject mATter Expertise)

The INCUBATE project seeks to provide teaching modules and learning assessments for injecting the CS2013 IAS learning outcomes across different courses found in typical CS curricula. This project began by identifying and defining cybersecurity topics based on the IAS learning outcomes. We then mapped these cybersecurity topics to our courses. The table below shows how our cybersecurity topics are mapped (i.e., injected) into typical CS courses. Teaching modules for injecting cybersecurity topics into CS courses are listed below. We have also designed a non-majors course Cybersecurity for future presidents.

Cybersecurity Topics	CS1	CS2	Hw	OOD	OS	PL	SE	AI	PBD	Net	Db	Capstone
Cryptography	I								I	I,P	P
Input validation	I	I,P		P	P			P	P	P		R
Network security									I	I
Principles	I		I	I,P	I,P				I,P	I,P	P	P,R
Risk and social impact	I		I	P	I,P				I,P	I,P		P,R
Secure software design	I			I,P	I	I			I,P	I,P		P,R
Secure software programming	I	I,P		P	I,P	I		P	P	P	I
Software development process				I	I				I	I		P
Systems			I	I	I		I		I	I		P
Key: Hw = Hardware, OOD = Object Oriented Design, OS = Operating Systems, PL = Programming Languages, AoA = Analysis of Algorithms, SE = Software Engineering, AI=Artificial Intelligence, PBD = Platform based Development, Net = Networks, DB = Database

Teaching Modules

CS1
CS2
Hardware
Analysis of algorithms
Object-oriented design
Database
Networks
Programming languages
Platform-based development
Software engineering
Capstone

NSF Award #1500033 DGE Division of Graduate Education SaTC-EDU: EAGER: INCUBATE - INjecting and assessing Cybersecurity edUcation with little internal suBject mATter Expertise