Information Security Education and Foundational Research

Abstract

The mini-track on Information Security Education and Foundational Research is a forum for the discussion of advances in two important areas of information security: education and basic research. The information security education area is concerned information security curriculum design at the national and institutional levels, innovative approaches to teaching information security, evaluations of existing approaches, emerging needs for information security curriculum, innovative approaches to faculty development and capacity building, challenges faced by institutions and programs, and other topics relevant to information security education. The fundamental research area is concerned with advances in the theory and foundations of information security such as new analytic results, mathematical developments and proofs. Topics covered in this category include cryptography and cryptographic protocols, mathematical analyses of secure computing systems, foundations of network security, ethical and legal issues in information security, the theoretical foundations of information security, information security management policy and response, and other foundational topics.