{"title":"Curriculum Development for Teaching Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems & Critical Infrastructure","authors":"Basil J. Hamdan, Rawan Al Nsour","doi":"10.1109/ietc54973.2022.9796664","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is well-established in academic and professional circles that there currently exists a knowledge/skill gap between engineers and IT/Cybersecurity professionals with respect to protecting the nation’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Critical Infrastructure (CI) from cyber threats and attacks. This paper documents relevant work and outlines a roadmap for developing a curriculum for a Graduate Certificate as part of the effort to bridge this gap. Given the complex, cross-sector dependencies and interdependencies of ICS and CI, this paper adopts a multidisciplinary approach to developing the proposed Curriculum. To this end, the curriculum augments existing courses in Cybersecurity and Engineering Technology and creates new ones for meeting sector-specific learning outcomes & objectives. Overall, the paper and the proposed curriculum hold the promise of contributing to the ongoing effort to bridge the knowledge/skill gap by educating the future engineering and security workforce on protecting the ICS and CI from cybersecurity threats and attacks.","PeriodicalId":251518,"journal":{"name":"2022 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ietc54973.2022.9796664","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is well-established in academic and professional circles that there currently exists a knowledge/skill gap between engineers and IT/Cybersecurity professionals with respect to protecting the nation’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Critical Infrastructure (CI) from cyber threats and attacks. This paper documents relevant work and outlines a roadmap for developing a curriculum for a Graduate Certificate as part of the effort to bridge this gap. Given the complex, cross-sector dependencies and interdependencies of ICS and CI, this paper adopts a multidisciplinary approach to developing the proposed Curriculum. To this end, the curriculum augments existing courses in Cybersecurity and Engineering Technology and creates new ones for meeting sector-specific learning outcomes & objectives. Overall, the paper and the proposed curriculum hold the promise of contributing to the ongoing effort to bridge the knowledge/skill gap by educating the future engineering and security workforce on protecting the ICS and CI from cybersecurity threats and attacks.