Abstract—These days cyber attacks are increasing all over the world, and the national critical infrastructure and information network protection have become important. For this reason, the concentrated investment in information security and bringing-up professional human resource are essential, but there is a shortage of information security workforce in Korea. Currently, departments of information security in Universities make efforts to bring up human resource of information security. On the other hand they have an increasing interest in the curriculum design of information security. So this paper investigates the curriculum of information security in Universities of Korea, and then compare with industrial needs of information security. Through this analysis, we will get implications about curriculum design of information security.

Index Terms—information security, curriculum of information security, industrial needs of information security

Cite: Min-Jeong Kim, Haeni Lee, Shin-Jeong Song, and Jinho Yoo, "Analysis of the Curriculum of Departments of Information Security in Universities and Comparison with Industrial Needs in Korea," Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 164-168, September 2014. doi: 10.12720/jiii.2.3.164-168