A framework for teaching network security in academic environments

摘要: Purpose – Teaching information systems security features some peculiarities, compared to other scientific fields, as the trainees have design and protect against both known unknown attacks. Moreover, so far established stereotypes present potential intruders being ingenious able penetrate almost every system. The paper aims discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Within scope of two different modules in higher education institutes, students' involvement into practical pre-designed scenarios was attempted, order for them understand way think, methodologies they follow liabilities one may face flawed network applications and/or supporting infrastructure. For this reason, an educational software tool developed (named “Hackademic Challenges”), which comprised a variety realistic scenarios, where student had locate exploit various vulnerabilities, successfully complete t...