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Teaching cybersecurity: Methods, approaches and techniques

By Milica Djekic

The vitally important thing in creating a cyber defense workforce could be to teach people that
branch of science and technology. So commonly, the courses, trainings and seminars must be
skillfully prepared and planned in order to make a workforce being capable to obtain the majority
of predicted tasks. This process may get quite challenging and not everyone could be a teacher
in this field. This area requires people with motivational approach and inspiring attitude that
would lead their students through their lessons, workshops or exercises.

How to prepare your training session

The cyber defense is an always changing field and if you want to get an expert in that area –
you need to learn and improve your skills, knowledge and expertise constantly and
continuously. It’s more like a technological branch and as we know technology changes very
fast and it’s necessary to follow new trends on a regular basis. The similar case is if you work in
a cybersecurity education and training sector – you need to get updated and improved
constantly.

For instance, making a cyber defense learning session is more like developing a good strategy.
What you need to do is to collect data from your students and analyze them in order to identify
which level of knowledge they already have. People may feel bothered if you talk to them
something they already know and they would express their dissatisfaction with your effort. So,
what you need to know is to adapt to their needs and requirements.

Also, it’s not a rare case that some company may seek your service and what you would do in
such a case is a research that would support you in identifying their needs and the current level
of skillfulness. In other words, the good preparation of learning sessions would require lots of
research effort as well as active thinking how to satisfy the needs of your students. Finally,
people dealing with the education and training area would always need a bit of strategic
approach to their task for the reason they should teach their students a cyber defense which is
definitely a strategic field.

Let’s deal in an interactive manner

We are sure that everyone got aware that the majority of cybersecurity trainings would get
conducted in the classrooms using many workstations and a skillful lecturer that would try to
explain those lessons. The point is to deal in an interactive way and motivate your audience
experience the field in the best possible manner. For such a purpose, you need someone with
the inspiring attitude as well as the good listener’s skills.

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