Securing the Next Generation

Authors

Wu-chang Feng, Portland State UniversityFollow
Robert Liebman, Portland State University
Ellie Harmon, Portland State UniversityFollow
Veronica Hotton, Portland State UniversityFollow
Michael Mooradian Lupro, Portland State UniversityFollow
Lois Delcambre, Portland State University

Sponsor

This material is supported NSF under Grant No. 1821841 and NSA under Award No. H98230-19-1-0027.

Published In

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

3-2020

Subjects

First-generation college students, Academic warning, College attendance, Academic achievement

Abstract

Weak authentication practices that rely on passwords for security have led to widespread data breaches and successful phishing attacks. Recent advances in the cost and usability of hardware security tokens have made the prospect of effectively augmenting password-based authentication or removing it altogether a possibility. To actualize this, a paradigm change in how people learn to authenticate accounts on-line must occur. Towards this end, we describe a curriculum to teach high-school students the perils of passwords and a program to distribute hardware security tokens to them as they are first setting up their on-line presence in order to improve the security of the next generation.

Rights

© 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Description

Poster was presented at SIGCSE ’20, March 11–14, 2020, Portland, OR, USA

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3372665

DOI

10.1145/3328778.3372665

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33776

Citation Details

Feng, W., Liebman, R., Harmon, E., Hotton, V., Lupro, M., Delcambre, L., & Pouliot, D. (2020, March). Securing the next generation. Poster presentation at Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, Portland, OR.