  Training the future cybersecurity workforce to respond to emerging threats
requires introduction of novel educational interventions into the cybersecurity
curriculum. To be effective, these interventions have to incorporate trending
knowledge from cybersecurity and other related domains while allowing for
experiential learning through hands-on experimentation. To date, the
traditional interdisciplinary approach for cybersecurity training has infused
political science, law, economics or linguistics knowledge into the
cybersecurity curriculum, allowing for limited experimentation. Cybersecurity
students were left with little opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills, and
abilities in domains outside of these. Also, students in outside majors had no
options to get into cybersecurity. With this in mind, we developed an
interdisciplinary course for experiential learning in the fields of
cybersecurity and interaction design. The inaugural course teaches students
from cybersecurity, user interaction design, and visual design the principles
of designing for secure use - or secure design - and allows them to apply them
for prototyping of Internet-of-Things (IoT) products for smart homes. This
paper elaborates on the concepts of secure design and how our approach enhances
the training of the future cybersecurity workforce.
