Professor Emeritus Dr. Amos Olagunju and computer engineering major Hari Shrestha earned honorable mention in the National Cyber Watch Center’s fourth annual Innovations in Cybersecurity Education awards and recognition program.
Olagunju and Shrestha’s project “STOQ-SRA: A Self-Learning Tool of Quantitative Security Risk Assessment” took honorable mention in the Instruction Innovation award category.
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As part of the project the duo designed and implemented STOQ-SRA, a tool with a graphical user interface, designed to facilitate-self learning of data-driven quantitative and qualitative security risk assessments. The tool will allow students to identify risks of security threats from viruses, thefts, hackers, natural disasters and various attacks; weigh the costs of loss expectancy against the cost of providing safeguards; and to solve case-based and scenario-based quantitative security risk assessment problems. The tool allows students to practice self-paced learning of security risk assessments and instructors to design practical hands-on, case-based projects for teaching and learning of security risk assessments. The project was supported by a research grant from the Minnestoa Information Technology Center for Excellence.
Olagunju and Shrestha’s project was one of seven recognized across four categories: Evidence-based Strategies, Instruction, Practice and Program Development and was among 40 creative ideas, curricula and projects submitted to the annual award and recognition program.
The winners and honorable mention submissions will be recognized during the opening plenary at the 2020 Virtual Community College Cyber Summit on Aug. 4.
The Innovations program was built on the premise that National CyberWatch members are some of the best information security educational innovators, and that through the Center, they can share their innovations, accelerate their adoption throughout the academic community, and receive proper recognition for their work.
National CyberWatch Center is a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education-funded cybersecurity consortium
