Teaching DevOps Security Education with Hands-on Labware: Automated Detection of Security Weakness in Python
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| author | Akter, Mst Shapna Rodriguez-Cardenas, Juanjose Rahman, Md Mostafizur Shahriar, Hossain Rahman, Akond Wu, Fan |
| author_facet | Akter, Mst Shapna Rodriguez-Cardenas, Juanjose Rahman, Md Mostafizur Shahriar, Hossain Rahman, Akond Wu, Fan |
| contents | The field of DevOps security education necessitates innovative approaches to effectively address the ever-evolving challenges of cybersecurity. In adopting a student-centered ap-proach, there is the need for the design and development of a comprehensive set of hands-on learning modules. In this paper, we introduce hands-on learning modules that enable learners to be familiar with identifying known security weaknesses, based on taint tracking to accurately pinpoint vulnerable code. To cultivate an engaging and motivating learning environment, our hands-on approach includes a pre-lab, hands-on and post lab sections. They all provide introduction to specific DevOps topics and software security problems at hand, followed by practicing with real world code examples having security issues to detect them using tools. The initial evaluation results from a number of courses across multiple schools show that the hands-on modules are enhancing the interests among students on software security and cybersecurity, while preparing them to address DevOps security vulnerabilities. |
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| spellingShingle | Teaching DevOps Security Education with Hands-on Labware: Automated Detection of Security Weakness in Python Akter, Mst Shapna Rodriguez-Cardenas, Juanjose Rahman, Md Mostafizur Shahriar, Hossain Rahman, Akond Wu, Fan Cryptography and Security The field of DevOps security education necessitates innovative approaches to effectively address the ever-evolving challenges of cybersecurity. In adopting a student-centered ap-proach, there is the need for the design and development of a comprehensive set of hands-on learning modules. In this paper, we introduce hands-on learning modules that enable learners to be familiar with identifying known security weaknesses, based on taint tracking to accurately pinpoint vulnerable code. To cultivate an engaging and motivating learning environment, our hands-on approach includes a pre-lab, hands-on and post lab sections. They all provide introduction to specific DevOps topics and software security problems at hand, followed by practicing with real world code examples having security issues to detect them using tools. The initial evaluation results from a number of courses across multiple schools show that the hands-on modules are enhancing the interests among students on software security and cybersecurity, while preparing them to address DevOps security vulnerabilities. |
| title | Teaching DevOps Security Education with Hands-on Labware: Automated Detection of Security Weakness in Python |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16944 |