Teachers and Students Learn Cyber Security: Comparing Software Quality, Security

In recent years, schools have added cyber security to their computer science curricula. While doing so, existing teachers are trained with the new material. In this study we explore differences in teachers ' and students ' learning of cyber security, implementing a multi-way, data-driven approach by comparing measures of software quality and security. Our findings suggest that teachers’ codes have a better quality than the students’, and that the students ’ codes are slightly better secured than the teachers’. The findings imply on the teachers benefit from their prior knowledge and experience. Also, findings shed light on the difference between quality and security in today’s programming paradigms