Hi Na - I like this idea, so many students think cybersecurity = privacy!  Do you have a target date when the materials could be available for use by other institutions?  What kind of lab environment is required? Do you think any of the materials could be used in high school or adapted for the K12 environment?

Thank you for sharing your project! What have you learned so far from assessing the effectiveness of this approach on student learning outcomes?

Hi Laurin,

Thank you for your interest to our project! Some of the modules have been completed and they are available at https://www.clark.center/browse?text=privacy. The Clark cybersecurity curriculum repository is currently hosting our materials. You can have free access. We are continuing to work on some of the modules for improvement.

Hi Danielle,

From our pre and post surveys, we found that students' awareness of privacy protection, their interest in privacy attacks and defenses, and their corresponding knowledge have increased greatly.

Thanks for this great work!  I appreciate your focus on using IoT projects as it relates to privacy and security.  Question: are the labs on IoT and security appropriate for high school students?  Are you using any specific hardware and software to teach IoT security?  Please let me know where I can see the labs.

I really like the variety of ways that you enable students to become aware and proficient in Cybersecurity. The description mentions the development of specialized labware. Is this something you have already completed? If so, can you share more about the custom labware, or about your plans with custom hardware? 

Hi Marcelo,

Thank you for your interest in our project. Yes, we developed some web/Android applications as labware for students to learn privacy related concepts. For example, in order to teach location privacy, we developed two web applications and one Android application. We have published a paper about the labware, titled "A labware for educating location privacy protection in location-based services". We created some VirtualBox images which have configured Ubuntu system and Android system. Users just need to install VirtualBox and then import our images to the VirtualBox to run the labs. If you go to the link https://www.clark.center/browse?text=privacy, you can find modules we already developed. Here is a paper which introduces another labware we developed, FriPEL: Friendship Privacy Educational Labware.

Thank you for raising privacy awareness. In your hands-on activities, do you teach students digital forensic methods and tools for analyzing the information and applications you show them? Learning to use real world methods and tools in this way can help them apply what they learn to different applications and contexts, and provide relevant experience for further cybersecurity education and career opportunities. 

Hello, Eoghan

Thank you for your interest. So far, we haven't included any digital forensic labs, but that's definitely a good suggestion. We will be investigating digital forensic topics and choose some related to privacy. Currently, we are targeting privacy topics, attempting to raise the awareness of privacy and show the difference between privacy and traditional cybersecurity.