using the parkerian hexad to introduce security in an information literacy class
In January 2006, Armstrong Atlantic State University(AASU) offered its first course in Information Security. At the same time, the university received funding for its Cyber Security Research Institute, a non-academic unit closely related to and funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The establishment of this research institute led the administration, the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Computing to create an academic minor in Cyber Security to be cross-listed between Criminal Justice and Information Technology. This paper describes the pedagogical effects of the creation of the minor and future implications for it and for the teaching of Information Security at Armstrong Atlantic State University. This article describes how the presentation of security in a junior level information literacy course evolved from a framework using the CIA model to the Parkerian Hexad model. This change was driven by the increasing use of mobile computing devices and the belief that the CIA model was not a sufficient framework to describe security in that environment. The Parkerian Hexad meets the needs to describe a mobile computing environment. However, it needs to be augmented in the areas of privacy and non-repudiation to provide sufficient coverage.
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