Eye-Tracking Study on Secure Coding
A collaborative study examining how lower-level programming students apply secure-coding practices while reading and writing code, using...
Cybersecurity Educator, Researcher & Author
Sagar Raina.
Cybersecurity educator and researcher advancing secure-coding education, computer science pedagogy, and usable security.
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About
Teaching security by understanding how people learn it.
I am an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York, where I teach a broad range of computing and cybersecurity courses and lead the development of new academic programs.
My work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity and education. I design and study interactive learning materials that help students internalize secure-coding practices, and I use tools such as eye-tracking to understand how learners actually read and write code. I have contributed to NSA- and NSF-funded initiatives, including Security Injections@Towson and the Cybersecurity Labs and Resource Knowledgebase (CLARK).
Please explore my research, publications, and teaching — and feel free to reach out about questions or collaborative opportunities.
Research Interests
Cybersecurity education (secure coding), computer science education, universal usability, and learning sciences.
Teaching Interests
Computer Programming; Web & Network Security; Software Security; Web & Mobile Application Development; Database Management Systems.
Current Research
What I'm working on now
A look at active projects in secure-coding education and usable security.
Home Internet of Things (HIoT) Security
Development of a security-evaluation model for home-based IoT devices. Currently in the preliminary phase.
Novel Authentication Mechanism for Computing Devices
Exploratory work on a new authentication mechanism for computing devices.
Selected Publications
Recent work
Minimizing Cognitive Overload in Cybersecurity Learning Materials: An Experimental Study using Eye-tracking
Proceedings of the Fourteenth World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE), Oslo, Norway
2021
Minimizing Cognitive Load in Cyber Learning Materials – An Eye Tracking Study
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), 1–6
2021
A Model for Security Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Case Study on a Cybersecurity Curriculum Library
Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, Vol. 7, No. 1
2020
Security Evaluation of Digital Libraries
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2020), Virtual
2020
Education
Academic background
Trained in information technology and doctoral research at Towson University.
D.Sc. — Information Technology
Towson University, Maryland, USA
M.S. — Applied Information Technology
Towson University, Maryland, USA
B.E. — Information Technology
University of Bombay, India
Get in touch
Interested in collaborating?
I welcome questions and collaborative opportunities in cybersecurity education and research.