Capacity Building for Information Assurance and Cyber Security

信息保障和网络安全能力建设

• 批准号: 1303384
• 负责人: Jeffrey McDonald
• 金额: $ 32.24万
• 依托单位: University of South Alabama
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Capacity; Building; Information; Assurance; Cyber

This capacity building project seeks to foster high quality education and research in Cybersecurity. The University of South Alabama (USA) has been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance (IA) Education by the National Security Agency and is an active participants in the CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. USA currently offers a full range of Cybersecurity courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. This project aims to increase the number of students interested in pursuing cybersecurity education, to provide key resource to further ongoing Cybersecurity research, and to increase the expertise of faculty and students. The project is providing broader impact and dissemination through local colloquia and research groups on campus and through two regional workshops that brings faculty from up to ten local community and junior colleges, fostering development of Cybersecurity focus throughout the region. The NSF's CyberCorps® SFS program funds projects that address cybersecurity education and workforce development. The Scholarship Track provides funding to award scholarships to students in cybersecurity. In return for their scholarships, recipients will work after graduation for a Federal, State, Local, or Tribal Government organization in a position related to cybersecurity for a period equal to the length of the scholarship. The Capacity Track seeks innovative proposals leading to an increase in the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce cybersecurity professionals. The project will expand the current cybersecurity program by three key activities: 1) developing a virtual lab facility that supports hands-on Cybersecurity curriculum development for ten cybersecurity courses and will provide computational resources for ten faculty conducting Cybersecurity research; 2) implementing a professional development program for faculty to remain current in Cybersecurity research advancements; and 3) sponsoring K-12 STEM field trips and summer camps that brings high school junior and seniors from local partner schools to the USA campus for cybersecurity focused field trips.

这个能力建设项目旨在促进高质量的教育和网络安全研究。南阿拉巴马大学（美国）已被国家安全局指定为信息保证学术卓越（IA）教育中心，并且是Cyber​​corps®：Service for Service（SFS）计划的积极参与者。美国目前在研究生和本科级别提供全方位的网络安全课程。该项目旨在增加有兴趣追求网络安全教育的学生人数，提供关键资源以进一步持续的网络安全研究，并提高教师和学生的专业知识。该项目正在通过校园的当地座谈会和研究小组以及两个区域研讨会提供广播公司的影响和传播，这些区域讲习班使教职员工从多达十个当地社区和初中，从而促进了整个地区网络安全的发展。 NSF的Cyber​​corps®SFS计划资助了针对网络安全教育和劳动力发展的项目。奖学金轨道为网络安全授予奖学金提供了资金。为了换取他们的科学，接收者将在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织毕业后工作与网络安全有关的位置，以等于科学长度。能力轨道寻求创新的建议，从而提高美国高等教育企业生产网络安全专业人员的能力。该项目将通过三个关键活动扩展当前的网络安全计划：1）开发一个虚拟实验室设施，该设施支持动手的网络安全课程开发十个网络安全课程，并将为执行网络安全研究的十个教师提供计算资源； 2）实施一项专业发展计划，以使教师在网络安全研究进步中保持最新； 3）赞助K-12 STEM野外旅行和夏令营，这将高中生和当地合作伙伴学校的老年人带到了美国校园，以专注于网络安全。