Collaborative Research: SURPASS: NSF SFS Unique Scholarship Program in Hardware and Systems Security

合作研究：SURPASS：NSF SFS 硬件和系统安全独特奖学金计划

• 批准号: 1662976
• 负责人: Swarup Bhunia
• 金额: $ 250.85万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1662976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SURPASS; NSF; SFS

There is an urgent need for a well-trained cybersecurity workforce in the government and private sectors. An effective cybersecurity education for our undergraduate and graduate students, using a well-designed curriculum, is essential to meet this need. The emergence of the Internet-of-Things, which promises an unprecedented number of devices, all connected to the Internet, makes the demand for cybersecurity education stronger than ever. This demand calls for not just an enhanced effort, but also a paradigm shift from traditional computer and information security education, which typically assumes that the hardware underlying the information systems is secure and trustworthy. Nonetheless, with a wide array of emerging attacks on hardware, that assumption is rapidly becoming invalid. Hence, there is a critical need to re-design our cybersecurity curriculum such that the nation's STEM student population is ready to take on future cybersecurity challenges. This scholarship program, called SURPASS, is a collaborative effort between two universities, University of Florida (UF) and Florida International University (FIU). Both universities serve diverse student populations, strong internationally-recognized hardware and systems security research programs, and extensive curricular offerings in cybersecurity, with the goal of addressing this need. Specifically, this program provides scholarships to encourage some of the best and brightest students in the state of Florida to pursue careers in hardware and systems security (HSS).The SURPASS SFS program by UF and FIU uniquely involves training students on critical aspects of cybersecurity with a strong emphasis on practical hands-on learning in HSS, utilizing unique lab facilities. SURPASS prepares future cybersecurity practitioners and researchers with a holistic education and training in HSS. Key features of SURPASS are as follows: (1) a focus on hardware security and trust at all levels of hardware abstraction, from chips to printed circuit boards (PCBs) to systems; (2) a careful integration of HSS education into a complete cybersecurity curriculum to enable students to understand system security issues spanning multiple layers, from devices to networks to the cloud; (3) extensive hands-on training, a unique feature, which not only helps students understand the makeup of a complex system, but also stimulates their interest in exploring new attacks/defenses; (4) integration of continuous one-to-one student mentoring from recruitment to placement and a systematic tracking of student progress; and finally, (5) training of a highly-diverse student population leading to the creation of a diverse workforce leveraging the large percentage (81%) of minority students at FIU.

政府和私营部门迫切需要训练有素的网络安全劳动力。使用精心设计的课程为我们的本科生和研究生提供有效的网络安全教育对于满足这一需求至关重要。物联网的出现带来了前所未有的数量的设备，所有这些设备都连接到互联网，这使得对网络安全教育的需求比以往任何时候都更加强烈。这种需求不仅需要加强努力，还需要传统计算机和信息安全教育的范式转变，传统计算机和信息安全教育通常假设信息系统底层的硬件是安全且值得信赖的。尽管如此，随着针对硬件的一系列新出现的攻击，这种假设很快就变得无效了。因此，迫切需要重新设计我们的网络安全课程，以便美国的 STEM 学生做好迎接未来网络安全挑战的准备。该奖学金计划名为 SURPASS，是佛罗里达大学 (UF) 和佛罗里达国际大学 (FIU) 两所大学之间的合作项目。这两所大学都为不同的学生群体提供服务，拥有强大的国际认可的硬件和系统安全研究项目，以及广泛的网络安全课程，旨在满足这一需求。具体来说，该计划提供奖学金，鼓励佛罗里达州一些最优秀、最聪明的学生从事硬件和系统安全 (HSS) 领域的职业。 UF 和 FIU 的 SURPASS SFS 计划独特地涉及对学生进行网络安全关键方面的培训高度重视利用独特的实验室设施进行 HSS 实践学习。 SURPASS 通过 HSS 的全面教育和培训为未来的网络安全从业者和研究人员做好准备。 SURPASS的主要特点如下：（1）关注从芯片到印刷电路板（PCB）再到系统的所有硬件抽象级别的硬件安全性和信任； (2) 将HSS教育仔细整合到完整的网络安全课程中，使学生能够了解从设备到网络再到云的多个层面的系统安全问题； （3）丰富的实践训练，这是其独特的特色，不仅可以帮助学生理解复杂系统的组成，还可以激发他们探索新的攻击/防御的兴趣； (4) 整合从招生到安置的持续一对一学生指导以及对学生进度的系统跟踪；最后，(5) 对高度多元化的学生群体进行培训，从而利用佛罗里达国际大学中大量 (81%) 的少数族裔学生创建多元化的劳动力队伍。