Cybersecurity Curricular Guidelines

The Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Cybersecurity Education (http://www.csec2017.org/) was launched in September, 2015 as a collaboration between major international computing societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Security (AIS SIGSEC1), and International Federation for Information Processin...

Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically

The primary legal obstacles to conducting cybersecurity are not outright prohibitions but rather the difficulty of determining which of a large set of complex statutes might regulate a given research project. Privacy, computer abuse, tort, and contract law are all potentially applicable. Moreover, even when the law permits a research activity, researchers may wonder whether it is ethically perm...

Assessing the FDA’s Cybersecurity Guidelines for Medical Device Manufacturers

Clerkship curricular revision based on the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics guidelines: does it make a difference?

OBJECTIVE To compare general pediatric knowledge acquisition and clinical problem-solving skills by students pre- and postcurricular reform based on the 1994 Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (APA-COMSEP) curricular guidelines. SETTING A large, urban academic medical center. SUBJECTS Third-year medical students on a required clerkshi...

A Cybersecurity Testbed for Industrial Control Systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a cybersecurity testbed for industrial control systems (ICS). The goal of this testbed is to measure the performance of an ICS when instrumented with cybersecurity protections in accordance with practices prescribed by prevailing standards and guidelines. This paper outlines the testbed design and lists research goals, use ...