Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Network Security Administration (NSA) Course Through Problem Based Learning

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is something that can not disconnect in our everyday lives, including in education. Entrepreneurs have started from schools to the University. Ciputra University has started a program Entrepreneur. The program Entrepreneur in Ciputra University to provide specialized subjects ranging Entrepreneur in firs to five semesters. Entrepreneurs mindset also include in other subjects course to maintain what has been gained student during the first to five semesters can still be applied. In specially, in engineering faculty, information multimedia technology department that has subjects Network Security Administrator (NSA) course. This course gives students the competencies of network security concepts. This concept must be deliver to student to make them understand. However, through my observation interest and enthusiasm of students for this course need to be improved. From these given problems, researcher use action class research. Researcher decide to implemented problem based solving and for create the mindset of entrepreneurs, researcher push them to make proposal about network security tools that they get from the internet. It is expected to provide an opportunity for students to be able to think that the NSA courses can also be made to entrepreneurial. The process this action class research was divided into two steps. The first steps gives independent assignment to the students to summarize next material. At the next meeting I check the understanding student by given an oral test. The second steps researchers provide a challenge to the students to find hacking tools then presented in class on midterm and implement it through case study in accordance with the tools that they get. The results of this study is illustrate that students are most motivated to understanding the concept of network security and creating a proposal. And at the last they realized that network security is important and this course could be made as opportunity for entrepreneurs. Since today, in Indonesia is still rare companies that have core business in data security.