A Proposed Framework for a Community College Cybersecurity Program

<p>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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Information Systems and Technology, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Restricted to Claremont Colleges Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Center for Information Systems and Technology

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Ward, Patrick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Itamar Shabtai
• Zachary Dodds

• community college
• curriculum development
• cybersecurity
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/809

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1831