Date of Award

2024

Degree Type

Restricted to Claremont Colleges Dissertation

Degree Name

Information Systems and Technology, PhD

Program

Center for Information Systems and Technology

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Lorne Olfman

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Itamar Shabtai

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Zachary Dodds

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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© 2024 Patrick Ward

Keywords

community college, curriculum development, cybersecurity

Subject Categories

Education

Abstract

This proposal is to develop a framework for designing a cybersecurity program. The goal of the program is to prepare students graduating from an accredited two-year college for success in cybersecurity careers. Several challenges such as program accreditation, workforce development, and Department of Homeland Security/National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE in CD) designation exist. All of these serve as inputs in constructing a methodology to develop such a program to meet local industry needs for cyber professionals. I developed this framework as a cybersecurity educator over the last five years, published a few papers, and I then contacted several of my peers to validate the factors that I used to build my framework.

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9798382740249

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