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Higher Education is responding with security related programs and seeking certified instructors, often CISSPs, for those programs. As both professionalsand educators, CISSPs have multiple responsibilities to both the profession and education. This raises some questions about how CISSPs in Higher Education are expected to contribute to the Information Security Body of Knowledge. Should academic CISSPs contribute security related research to the academic body of knowledge? What percentage of their research should CISSPs devote to security related research? This study investigates these questions and others through a small survey asking CISSPs their opinions about contribution expectations to Higher Education research. The results suggest CISSPs should contribute at least some security related research.  \nKeywords: CISSP, Information Security, Security Education, Cyber Security  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nAs awareness of information and cyber threats increase, more students seek degrees related to Information or Cyber Security. To meet this need, many educational institutions are adding security related programs, and are seeking qualified and or certified instructors to teach the courses (Bicak, Liu, & Murphy, 2015; Martin & Woodward, 2013) . This seems to be especially true for institutions who have obtained or are seeking status as NSA approved Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations or Defense (O'Neil, 2013; Yang & Wen, 2017) .  \nThere are a number of certifications in high demand, including, but not limited to, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) , Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), CompTIA Security+, CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and GSEC: SANS GIAC Security Essentials (Brown, 2019; McLaughlin, 2005; Walters, 2007) . This particular study focuses only on CISSP.  \nThe CISSP has highly rigorous standards for achieving and maintaining the certification. According to the (ISC)2, the certifying organization for the CISSP and other security certifications, a CISSP should:  \n􀁸 Protect society, the common good, necessary public trust and confidence, and the infrastructure.  \n􀁸 Act honorably, honestly, justly, responsibly, and legally.  \n􀁸 Provide diligent and competent service to principles.  \n􀁸 Advance and protect the profession  \n\"CISSP – The World's Premier Cybersecurity Certification,\" 2019) . The important tenet for this study is the last, “Advance and protect the profession”. While there may be numerous ways to accomplish this, contributing to professional and academic bodies of knowledge is the focus of this study.  \nSpecific publication requirements are dependent upon the type of organizations, but the general expectation across all of them is “publish or perish.” In many higher education organizations jobs, tenure, and promotion are often driven by  \nwhether the academic produces publications. For Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) research in the security area is essentially required by the NSA as part of the requirements for a CAE (NSA, 2019) . The requirement for the CISSP to contribute to the profession combined with the requirements of academia leads to a discussion about whether CISSPs in higher education should produce publications that are related to security (Brown, 2019; Walters, 2007; Yang & Wen, 2017) .  \nThis study is an attempt to provide some initial perspectives on the question about how CISSPs should contribute to higher education. To answer this question, we utilized a survey to ask CISSPs who have published in higher education journals about their perceptions.  \n2. SURVEY DEVELOPMENT AND ","cbCain4BK2yRCglE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain4BK2yRCglE","pdf",518478,"English","# 1. INTRODUCTION\n# 2. SURVEY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION","[{\"question\":\"Why does the study focus on CISSP contributions to higher education research?\",\"answer\":\"The study is driven by the growing demand for security-related curriculum and the expectation that CISSPs contribute to the profession and academia. 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