A Study Of Security Education In The Era Of Cyber-Terrorism

Abstract

Cyber-Terrorism continues to confront the country with security threats.  Since the September 11 attack, academia has not fully implemented in educational offerings a deterrence strategy satisfactory to the government.  Though the National Security Agency has introduced Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, as an appropriate education program, there are only a small number of schools in the country that have enabled their offerings through this program.  The focus of this study is to explore in survey the critical failure factors impacting the implementation of Centers of Academic Excellence education in academic institutions, by initially sampling schools in the Northeast Corridor of the United States.  This study contributes to the discussion of important considerations for academic and governmental officials to further enable security strategy in this era of the cyber-terrorist.