Designing Degree Programmes for Bachelors and Masters in Information Security

摘要

The effectiveness of ensuring information security (IS) largely depends on the IS specialist's professional level. It is important to design the relevant degree programmes (DPs) for their training within the framework of academic education. This process involves the definition of initial data and the implementation of a certain number of interrelated stages. The peculiarities of national educational systems as well as inadequate coordination of educational activities at the international level are the main reasons for the lack of uniform requirements for the DPs' formation. A DP's design procedure, based on the experience of the international organizations engaged in the accreditation of individual DPs, is considered. The paper defines the typical DP's structure and the basic stages of its design for the example of the Bachelor's and Master's in IS DPs.