Using a socio-technical systems approach to design and support systems thinking in cyber security education

Abstract

Information security (IS) has been categorized as protecting the confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and accountability of information. There is a gap between what companies and institutions plan to do while developing their internal IS-related policies and what it should be done according to a system perspective in this area. Our task as researchers is to bridge this gap by offering potential solutions. The aim of our work is to promote the usage of a socio-technical systems (STS) approach to support the emerging role of systems thinking in cyber security education using simulation as a supporting tool for the learning. Meanwhile, new trends in cyber security curricula suggest an important shift towards new thinking approaches to be used, such as systems thinking.