Improving General Undergraduate Cyber Security Education: A Responsibility for All Universities?

Cyber has evolved in the Information Age to penetrate and threaten all aspectsof society. Arguably, undergraduate education needs to prepare graduatesfor cyber security as it does in communication and logic. Yet, mostuniversities are so far only including cyber security as a new discipline. Oneuniversity in 2015 made cyber security a general education subject. This researchreports that the university’s first major curricular and pedagogical reformfor the general cyber security subject to be more realisable and appreciatedby students. It also exemplifies the importance of well-designed laboratoriesfor student appreciation and understanding within this new field andthus within educational research.Cyber threats are becoming a pre-eminent concern within international affairsnow that cyberspace is considered a natural condition for survival within moderndeveloped societies . Cyber threat development is acceleratingat such a rate . that there is a significant concern that a real-worldattack could cause damage to the global dynamic .