Faculty Attitudes Toward Teaching Ethical Hacking to Computer and Information Systems Undergraduates Students
Alfredo Cruz
Abstract:
This paper deals with faculty attitudes toward teaching ethical hacking to Computer and Information Systems undergraduate students. The authors examine issues that should be considered when designing information security curriculum. Furthermore, the paper discusses issues involved when faculty teach students how to hack and explors the issues involved in designing and information security course with laboratory components that can involve destructive actions. Many university programs have increased the course offerings and the depth of computer security programs, as the ethics of teaching hacking as an ongoing professional development tool is certainly an issue in today’s digital age. If you want to catch a criminal, you have to be able to think like one. Finally, this paper will provide university administrators with an idea of the issues encountered when designing an information assurance curriculum, and at the same time demystify the term of hacking or ethical hacking between faculties. More research should be done on how to integrate the concept of ethics, not in just an isolated course but across the information assurance curriculum.