Engaging the Community: Strategies for Software Assurance Curricula Outreach

Abstract

How to better achieve secure and correctly functioning software systems, regardless of their origins, application domain, or operational environments? Engaging a knowledgeable team of educators to develop curricula courses, and other materials for the discipline of software assurance is but the start. If we build it, will they come? In this paper, I explore strategies this team of educators used to encourage the community of computing educators to adopt software assurance curricula.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA586946

Entities

People

  • Carol A. Sledge

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Communities
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Cybersecurity
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Geographic Regions
  • Materials
  • Professional Associations
  • Security
  • Service Academies
  • Software Assurance
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Software Engineering.