Open AccessMovies as an Aid to Teach Principles of Cybersecurity and Cybercrime in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Antonios Andreatos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of education and information technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2074-1316
DOI - 10.46300/9109.2020.14.10
Subject(s) - cybercrime , syllabus , dimension (graph theory) , computer security , internet privacy , public relations , psychology , political science , engineering , engineering ethics , computer science , pedagogy , the internet , world wide web , mathematics , pure mathematics
A pilot effort to raise students’awareness on the human factors of cybersecurityand cybercrime is presented. One day, instead oflectures, a commercial film was projected. Thestudents were able to identify most of the cyberattacksrelated to the technical backgroundgiven in the course, while they missed some of thefrauds committed by the actors, related to thepsycho-social and legal dimensions, which werenot covered in the syllabus. The students hadthe opportunity to acquire some insight aboutthe latter while enjoying the movie. The wholeexperiment was evaluated positively. Thus, it becameclear to the students that cybersecurity hasalso a psycho-social dimension which should notbe underestimated.