The Journal of the 28th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) is based on the colloquium hosted on-site at the University of Tampa in Florida in November of 2024. The editors here express their gratitude to the university and particularly to Alper Yayla and Peyman Abdollahi of the University of Tampa Center for Cybersecurity. This colloquium was also held in conjunction with a successful hackathon sponsored and run by EC-Council. Thank you Wesley Alvarez, EC-Council Director of Academics for your partnership.
CISSE is a key gathering place for leaders of cybersecurity and cybersecurity education to share research, collaborate on improving cybersecurity education. This is achieved by offering a robust forum for our national and international community that is devoted to innovating cybersecurity education, expanding a quality cybersecurity workforce, and providing a place to connect with cybersecurity peers to make a safer, more aware, and more resilient global society.
As this Journal is published in 2025, we see dramatic transformations in cybersecurity that are taking place in multiple aspects of society and technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) has amplified both cyber attack and defense practices. And AIs broad deployment in industry has created new challenges in security, privacy, and integrity of decision making. The world of coding is being significantly transformed by AI as well. Quantum encryption is being applied to practical challenges and post-quantum cryptographic solutions are being deployed in applications available to all. Geopolitical volatility is dramatically changing how we see supply chains for chips, hardware systems, software, and manufacturing, while robotics are causing disruptive innovation in manufacturing, transportation, household IoT, and beyond. Virtual Realities (Vx) and gamespaces are increasing in adoption and influence, and changing how we work and teach. In response to these and other changes, the cybersecurity workforce is transforming and expanding beyond technical defense and forensics into all departments across companies, from accounting and law to policy and procurement.
This year 24 papers were accepted from across the US and internationally. The journal publishes all submitted papers of significant value to the Colloquium members and the field, after passing a peer review process and review by the Editorial Board.
The papers this year meet the emerging challenges of society’s dramatic cyber transformations with rigorous work from multiple disciplines, all converging on improving cybersecurity education. AI is a major theme, with authors researching its use in education as well as providing innovative content on AI. Quantum computing is represented with research based on operational capabilities. The socio-psychological aspects of cyberspace are analyzed by our authors as cybersecurity capabilities expands to address the psychology of cyber conflict roles and behavior on social media. Yet enhancement of core cybersecurity education disciplines are also seeing innovation, such as curricular strategies, gamification, and project-based learning. New research for teaching particular skills like Operations technologies, and in new contexts like Occupational Therapy.
Copyright of the content remains in the hands of the authors, with free distribution encouraged. The Colloquium retains the right to publish in the Journal and elsewhere. Usage and publication requests should be made directly to the authors.
The Editorial Board would like to thank all those who participated, in particular the journal’s Program Committee members who enabled the peer review process. This allows us to maintain the high standards of the journal and improve the Editorial Board’s review process. Thanks to The Colloquium’s President, Denise Kinsey, for organizing the conference again this year. And thank you to the Board of Directors and Officers of the Colloquium, who provided essential leadership and guidance under Chairman & Co-founder William “Vic” Maconachy.
The Editorial Board:
Erik Moore, Editor-in-Chief
Dan Likarish, Senior Editor
Denise Kinsey, Senior Editor
Alexander Kent, Associate Editor
Chizoba Ubah, Associate Editor
Andrew Belón, Production Editor
