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

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Lorne Olfman

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Itamar Shabtai

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Zachary Dodds

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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