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most citedCreating a Cybersecurity Concept Inventory: A Status Report on the CATS Project

7 citations · 7 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2020

Experiences and Lessons Learned Creating and Validating Concept Inventories for Cybersecurity

Alan T. Sherman, Geoffrey L. Herman, Linda Oliva +5

We reflect on our ongoing journey in the educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) Project to create two concept inventories for cybersecurity. We identify key steps in thi…

cs.CR2020

Formal Methods Analysis of the Secure Remote Password Protocol

Alan T. Sherman, Erin Lanus, Moses Liskov +7

We analyze the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol for structural weaknesses using the Cryptographic Protocol Shapes Analyzer (CPSA) in the first formal analysis of SRP (specific…

cs.HC2019

Investigating Crowdsourcing to Generate Distractors for Multiple-Choice Assessments

Travis Scheponik, Enis Golaszewski, Geoffrey Herman +4

We present and analyze results from a pilot study that explores how crowdsourcing can be used in the process of generating distractors (incorrect answer choices) in multiple-choice…

cs.CR2019

The CATS Hackathon: Creating and Refining Test Items for Cybersecurity Concept Inventories

Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, Enis Golaszewski +12

For two days in February 2018, 17 cybersecurity educators and professionals from government and industry met in a "hackathon" to refine existing draft multiple-choice test items, a…

cs.CR2018

The SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC: Project-Based Learning Inspires Cybersecurity Students

Alan Sherman, Enis Golaszewski, Edward LaFemina +13

May 30-June 2, 2017, Scholarship for Service (SFS) scholars at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) analyzed the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer s…

cs.CR20177 cited

Creating a Cybersecurity Concept Inventory: A Status Report on the CATS Project

Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, David DeLatte +7

We report on the status of our Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) project that is creating and validating a concept inventory for cybersecurity, which assesses the quality of in…