Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University. Series “Pedagogy and Psychology”

Vol. 4, No. 2, 2018 open access Open access

Training of cybersecurity professionals: experience of the USA and Ukraine

B.V. Bystrova

DOI 10.31339/2413-3329-2018-2(8)-214-216 Pages 214 –216 Views 950 Views

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the course of research and to highlight its results. The scientific novelty of the obtained results and the theoretical significance of the study is that for the first time in the national pedagogical science a comprehensive analysis of the bachelors' professional training in the field of 'Cyber Security' in higher education institutions in the United States was carried out; the organizational, pedagogical and didactic principles of the cybersecurity bachelor's professional training in the American higher education system are disclosed; a comparative-pedagogical analysis of the cybersecurity bachelor's professional training in higher education institutions in the United States and universities in Ukraine was conducted. The peculiarities of the study content are the multidisciplinary nature of teaching and learning, double majors studying, and the introduction of cybernetic security specializations in other specialties, the integration of the theoretical and practical components in the process of specialists training. With regard to the forms and methods of professional training of bachelors from cybersecurity, they are aimed at research skills development, an independent work organization, interactivity, and total computerization). The comparative and pedagogical analysis of the cybersecurity bachelor’s professional training in higher education institutions in the United States and Ukrainian universities gave the basis for the extrapolation possibilities of American experience constructive ideas into the system of higher technical education in Ukraine on the strategic, organizational, and content levels. 

Keywords

Cybersecurity specialist, educational programs, comparative analysis, IT Industry, cybersecurity, diversification, modernization

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Suggested citation

B.V. Bystrova (2018). Training of cybersecurity professionals: experience of the USA and Ukraine. Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University. Series “Pedagogy and Psychology”, 4(2), 214-216. 10.31339/2413-3329-2018-2(8)-214-216