Faculty Attitudes Toward Teaching Ethical Hacking to Computer and Information Systems Undergraduates Students

This paper deals with faculty attitudes toward teac hing ethical hacking to Computer and Information Systems undergraduate students. The authors examine issues that should be considered when designing informatio n security curriculum. Furthermore, the paper discus ses issues involved when faculty teach students how to hack and explors the issues involved in designing and in formation security course with laboratory component s that can involve destructive actions. Many university progra ms have increased the course offerings and the dept h of computer security programs, as the ethics of teachi ng hacking as an ongoing professional development t ool is certainly an issue in today’s digital age. If you w ant to catch a criminal, you have to be able to thi nk like one. Finally, this paper will provide university adminis trators with an idea of the issues encountered when designing an information assurance curriculum, and at the same t ime demystify the term of hacking or ethical hackin g between faculties. More research should be done on how to i ntegrate the concept of ethics, not in just an isol ated course but across the information assurance curriculum.