Security and Privacy in the Internet Era: Bringing Real World to Classroom

Security and privacy issues have become far more critical and complex in the Internet era. Balancing security enhancement and privacy protection remains a key challenge involving both technical and non-technical issues. It is crucial to restructure computer and software engineering curricula to familiarize students with the challenges and opportunities associated with the security and privacy in the Internet era. The key is the balance between security enhancement and privacy protection. This has motivated the project led by the author to bring these real world challenges and opportunities to classroom. This project aims at familiarizing students with the security and privacy issues in this era; the ethical and legal basis for privacy protection; the major challenge of balancing security enhancement and privacy protection; securityand privacy-enhancing technologies; and psychological, social, cultural and physiological influences of security and privacy violation. This paper presents the project highlights, the latest results and lessons learned.