This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 2025, held in Maribor, Slovenia, during May 21–23, 2025.
The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Workforce and Curriculum Development; Curriculum and Research Development; Gamification in Cybersecurity Education; Innovative Approaches to Cybersecurity Awareness; Papers Invited from SEC; and Discussions.
.- Workforce and Curriculum Development.
.- INFER: Enhancing Digital Forensics Education through Ready-to-Use Hands-on
Labs with Portable Operating Environments.
.- Expanding the Cybersecurity Workforce: Challenges, Current Practices and
Future Directions in Attracting and Cultivating Multidisciplinary Talent.
.- An Evaluation Process for Tools that Build or Evidence Competency in
Cybersecurity: Development and Lessons Learned.
.- Curriculum and Research Development.
.- A Transdisciplinary Approach to Embedding Cybersecurity Across the
Curriculum of an Undergraduate Computing Degree Program in South Africa.
.- Using Attack Trees for Security Education and Training: Simplifying Threat
Analysis.
.- Regulatory Challenges in Cybersecurity - A Critical Analysis of the EU AI
Act.
.- CSEC Foundations Guidelines.
.- Gamification in Cybersecurity Education.
.- Loss Aversion and Fixed Reward in Gamified Cyber Security Training.
.- Improving Cyber Security Incident Response: A Collaborative Tabletop Game
Approach.
.- Gamified Defence: Practical Guidelines for Combating Social Engineering
Attacks.
.- Lucky the Fish Teaches Children About Phishing.
.- Innovative Approaches to Cybersecurity Awareness.
.- The Cyber Range Lite: Lightweight Infrastructure for Training and
Education.
.- A Car Hacking Mini-Unit for High School Cybersecurity Education.
.- Papers Invited from SEC.
.- Exposing the Gaps: The State of Supply Chain Coverage in Current Security
Standards.
.- Integrating Security Concepts into Introductory Programming Courses.
.- Discussions.
.- Advancing Digital Privacy Education: A Global Curriculum Initiative.
.- Cybersecurity Awareness via Physical Games.
