Teaching Cyber Security through Distance Learning with International Students

Cyber security is one of the most relevant parts of modern information and communications technology (ICT) deploymentsand it will further grow in importance in the future. Therefore it is necessary to develop proper courses and educational tools totrain students with the required sets of skill. From the educational point of view, due to the international perspective of cybersecurity, encouraging collaboration among students from different nations is desirable. To address these challenges, we presentthe International Virtual Lab on Information Security, which uses and extends a revamped earlier lab infrastructure. The maingoal of the lab is to enrich the student experience not only related to cyber security but also address cultural aspects which indistance education are seldom possible. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed platform, we performed tests with studentsfrom three different nations.