Contrasting the CSEC 2017 and the CAE Designation Requirements

Abstract

The draft 2017 Cybersecurity Curricula, also called CSEC2017, is being developed to provide guidelines for cybersecurity curricula development. One component, the Knowledge Areas, includes Knowledge Units. This terminology is the same as is used for the U.S. NSA/DHS Centers of Academic Excellence in various disciplines of cybersecurity. The two are different, yet complementary. In order to aid faculty and others in understanding the difference between the two programs, this paper explores both the CSEC2017 and CAE academic designation criteria, and compares and contrasts them