MCDM for Selection of Cybersecurity Technologies Used in Cybersecurity Education

MCDM for Selection of Cybersecurity Technologies Used in Cybersecurity EducationEducators of graduate cybersecurity education lack decision methodologies to aid in selecting and prioritizing cybersecurity criteria and tools to provide hands-on learning in cyber courses. Educators are challenged with keeping the cybersecurity tools in the education curriculum relevant and updated. The risk of not doing so, is possibly graduating students without the necessary technical proficiency with the most current cybersecurity tools, producing a cybersecurity workforce unable to meet the challenges of an ever-evolving threat environment. Through literature research, a decision-making methodology that is comprised of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and three rounds of Delphi group decision making, was devised to address this problem space. Employing AHP and Delphi delivers a stable decision-making process that graduate cybersecurity educators can use to select cybersecurity tools for graduate cybersecurity curriculum. The results of statistical analyses testing for the consistency and consensus of expert judgements, was shown to be stable. Recommendations for future work as well as opportunities for outreach to connect with, and educate, cybersecurity educators, are provided.

Author

• Pal, Shapna Sultana

Language

• en

Date created

• 2022

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Engineering Management

Degree

• D.Engr.

Advisor

• Etemadi, Amir
• Holzer, Thomas

Committee Member(s)

• Blackford, J.P.

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/w0892b91t