Bitcoin, a virtual currency is the rave of the moment for many young people willing to take investment risks online.
In social media circles, it is often touted as a private way to banking without excessive fees or government monitoring.
For Assistant Professor, School of IT & Computing, Dr. Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, Bitcoin is not just a cash gateway to a digital frontier driven by users of the internet, but an opportunity to catalog new knowledge and its implications for society.
Dr. Rao as he is fondly called has been published in a Springer book. His chapter explored the need for cybersecurity in higher education, why it is needed, what is needed, and what ideologies universities are applying in the management science and computer science disciplines.
Based on a contemporary literature review sample, the authors identified blockchain technology as one of the most essential components of modern cybersecurity higher education in both management science and computer science disciplines.
The authors also delved into topics already being taught within blockchain cybersecurity across two disciplines.
“We then investigated the different ideologies that several leading universities were employing to teach blockchain. Interestingly, we found that universities were developing very divergent strategies to teach blockchain. We proposed a conceptual typology to synthesize the scholarly ideologies for teaching blockchain at universities based on the literature and based on our experiences.” The abstract reads.
The chapter’s proposed model can be used by decision-makers at any level to design programs at universities or by prospective students to analyze what to study when pursuing a degree in cybersecurity. It also articulates the strategies international universities are using to design and deliver cybersecurity and risk management degrees.
The AUN community is proud of Dr. Rao’s achievement as it improves our learning community’s understanding of blockchain technology, cybersecurity, and risk management.
For more on this:
https://link.springer.com/
By Office of Communications