Teaching Cyber Security: The Hack-Space Integrated Model

Nowadays cyber security is becoming an ever more stringent requirement and warned by organizations and companies all over the world. Furthermore, the educational offer on the topic is still modest and universities are struggling to design training courses capable of producing professionals directly employable. In this work, this need is addressed with the proposal of an integrated model "The Hack Space", developed within the Master of Science in Computer Security of the University of Bari, composed of four main elements: Organization, Knowledge, Skills/Tools and Collaboration. The Hack Space aims to create professionals capable of dealing with security at various levels, with clear ideas on what are the processes, functions and controls useful for security, using an in-depth knowledge structure of the company.