https://diode.zone/videos/watch/a01d6c32-1bac-42cc-b817-d840e19c1b4b Cybersecurity majors are being increasingly offered at colleges and universities across the United States. This is in addition to the many informal and corporate-sponsored routes towards cybersecurity education. This talk explores two formal cybersecurity courses offered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: the flagship Information Systems Security course as well as a new course named Modern Binary Exploitation. These two courses provide us a tale of two approaches: one formally designed by a professor and the other originally developed and taught by students. We will examine what worked, what didn’t, future plans for these two courses and the potential for future courses and cybersecurity activities at RPI. We will conclude with strategies for students and teachers to get the most out of their cybersecurity education, regardless of its source. Brian Callahan is a Lecturer in the Information Technology and Web Science program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He oversees the Information Security concentrations of the major at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and teaches many of the cybersecurity courses offered. He is a long-time developer for the OpenBSD operating system. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:42:44 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/61b689b7-84d5-43c7-9fa8-e63a7fd1d952.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/a01d6c32-1bac-42cc-b817-d840e19c1b4b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.