As security breaches occur regularly, it has become clear that the amount of security preparation of undergraduate computer science needs to be revamped substantially. A major aspect of security that is covered only in few undergraduate computer science programs is the notion of adversarial thinking. Moreover, as security experts point out, security needs to be baked into software, not added in as an afterthought. The next decennial release of undergraduate computer science curricula being developed by a task force of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society and AAAI. It is targeted for release in 2023, a decade after the previous release in 2013. In CS2013, the security content was captured in the Information Assurance and Security, which was then the preferred term for the knowledge area. In CS2023, the knowledge area is simply called Security, subsuming security and privacy, and reflects the changes in the other CS knowledge areas, as well as the growth of other computing disciplines, such as cybersecurity and information technology, which also cover aspects of the curricular space of security.

Early drafts of the CS2023 Security knowledge area are being posted on the CS2023 website (csed.acm.org). In this participative virtual workshop on security in undergraduate computer science, attendees will learn about the current state of this area, participate in deciding what elements of the latest draft are acceptable and what elements need to be revised, changed or dropped before the CS2023 curricular guidelines are officially released.