SaTC-EDU:EAGER:A Wiki Space for Information Security Education Exchange

SaTC-EDU:EAGER:信息安全教育交流维基空间

• 批准号: 1465260
• 负责人: William Conklin
• 金额: $ 28.68万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1465260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; EDU; EAGER; Wiki; Space

Information security remains a persistent and growing problem in the United States due to ever-progressing reliance on information technologies and systems to provide critical services and enable society's contemporary way of life. The economics of computing favor performance and functionality over security and may continue to do so for some time. This environment is created by graduates of education programs, programs which can be argued to be lacking in emphasis on security impacts associated with this new information age. The economics of education are also pitted against cyber security education. Cyber security education is a resource intensive endeavor that requires program refreshes on a regular basis as technology changes and advances. The level of expertise necessary to provide continual curricula development is also a barrier, which reduces the number of institutions that are able to effectively keep up with the advancement of technology.The purpose of this project is to create a sharing community of educators from institutions in the Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) program for Information Assurance and those wishing to develop better educational resources for their programs. This community will be reinforced with an online wiki maintained by the community. The mediated wiki platform will assist in the mapping of resources and tools to the Knowledge Unit (KU) system emplaced to cover the required learning areas in cybersecurity. This wiki will allow sharing of educational materials, including texts, labs, tools, and exams. This project will reduce the level of work required from educators to build and retool classes to the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity.

由于越来越依赖信息技术和系统来提供关键服务并实现社会的当代生活方式，信息安全在美国仍然是一个持续存在且日益严重的问题。计算经济学更看重性能和功能而不是安全性，并且这种情况可能会持续一段时间。这种环境是由教育项目的毕业生创建的，这些项目可以说缺乏对与新信息时代相关的安全影响的重视。教育经济学也与网络安全教育发生冲突。网络安全教育是一项资源密集型工作，需要随着技术的变化和进步定期更新课程。提供持续课程开发所需的专业知识水平也是一个障碍，它减少了能够有效跟上技术进步的机构的数量。该项目的目的是创建一个由来自各机构的教育工作者组成的共享社区学术卓越中心 (CAE) 信息保障计划以及那些希望为其计划开发更好教育资源的组织。该社区将通过社区维护的在线维基得到加强。中介维基平台将协助将资源和工具映射到知识单元（KU）系统，以覆盖网络安全所需的学习领域。 该维基将允许共享教育材料，包括文本、实验、工具和考试。该项目将减少教育工作者为快速发展的网络安全领域构建和重组课程所需的工作量。