Evaluating the Basic Knowledge Transfer of Data Security in a Postgraduate Specialist Training Course

Abstract

In case of a training programme which aims to improve cyber security in the public service it is required to transfer  basic knowledge of information technologies to the  attendees. Generally, only a small part of the attendees on  such training programmes are qualified computer science  experts. Hence, we can assume that the rest of the students lack a deeper engineering and technical knowledge on this field. However, it is a challenging task to educate such  students in a way they can understand and use the  transferred knowledge. In this paper, we evaluate the  results of an existing course in the field of information technologies that can be a basis for a similar course in the  cybersecurity training programme for public service. We  investigate the effectiveness, correctness and insufficiency  of the knowledge transfer. Finally, we propose  improvements and changes to be able to integrate such  courses into a cybersecurity training programme for public  service.