About the project
Self-study academy makes researchers fit for cyber security
The world is becoming more digital - this offers great opportunities, but also creates high levels of stress. Increasing digitalization also leads to anxiety and excessive demands among students and researchers. Increasing demands in dealing with different platforms, applications and services as well as the lack of time, learning options and background knowledge can lead to serious security problems at universities.
The project "Self-learning academy for cyber and information security, SecAware.NRW" aims to remedy this situation. The Institute for Internet Security - if(is) at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Institute for the Digital Transformation of Application and Living Domains (IDiAL) at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts have won the project in a tender issued by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The aim is to create an online learning offer for universities in NRW that raises users' awareness and builds or strengthens their IT skills in the context of cyberattacks.
The content will be implemented on the Moodle and ILIAS learning platforms and cover the entire field of cyber and information security. "By building security awareness, we want students and researchers to gain both the knowledge and the attitude to help ensure that universities in NRW can shape a secure and trustworthy digital future," says Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann, summarizing the goal of this project.
"A particular challenge lies in the intuitive design of the platform, as the self-learning offers should be usable without training," emphasizes Prof. Dr. Andrea Kienle, member of IDiAL.
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Cooperation/project partners
Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences
