ACM/IEEE CSEC2017

Cybersecurity Curricula 2017

pedagogy
global
Published

May 8, 2026

At a glance

Steward Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education (ACM, IEEE-CS, AIS, IFIP)
Canonical page Cybersecurity Curricula 2017
Version 2017 v1.0
Released 2017-12-31
Source format PDF
License Copyright 2017 ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP, with permission granted for educational-materials development
framework_summary slug csec2017-v1

Structure in cybed: terms

CSEC2017 structural mapping Framework csec:Framework Knowledge area (curricular thought-model grouping) csec:KnowledgeArea = cybed:OrganizingUnit (no cybed:Role) Topic csec:Topic = cybed:RoleElement contains cybed:hasOrganizingUnit has element cybed:hasElement
CSEC2017's Knowledge Areas are curricular thought-model groupings, not workforce roles. Click any box or edge label to flip between plain English and the technical schema name.

Counts

Measure Value
Knowledge Areas 8
Strict elements (topics) 40
With-examples elements 40
Topics per Knowledge Area 5.0

The Knowledge Area / Topic structure is the framework’s coarse-grained surface. Beneath each topic, CSEC2017 defines further sub-elements (Essentials and supplementary content) that the current ingestion captures only at the topic level. Element counts are therefore a lower bound on what CSEC2017 specifies.

Provenance

Source

CSEC2017 curricular guidelines (the Joint Task Force report from ACM, IEEE-CS, AIS SIGSEC, and IFIP WG 11.8).

Ingestion

scripts/010-ingest-csec2017.R parses the structure into the cybed schema.

License

Subject to ACM/IEEE licensing terms. The package does not bundle the source text. Users stage it locally.

Caveats

  • CSEC2017’s KAs are curricular thought-model groupings, not workforce roles or competency clusters. Cross-framework comparisons that equate KAs with roles misrepresent the framework’s intent.
  • Per-topic Essentials and supplementary content are not materialized as RDF triples. The strict count reflects only the top-level topic enumeration per Knowledge Area, so headline element-density figures should be read as a floor rather than a ceiling.
  • CSEC2017 is a curricular guideline for university programs, not a hiring specification. The framework does not encode workforce roles or proficiency levels, so it sits on a different axis from NICE, DCWF, and ECSF in any cross-framework comparison.
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