Cybersecurity Scholarship-for-Service Renewal at The University of Arizona:The AZSecure SFS Program

亚利桑那大学网络安全服务更新奖学金：AZSecure SFS 计划

• 批准号: 1921485
• 负责人: Hsinchun Chen
• 金额: $ 358.55万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cybersecurity; Scholarship; Service; Renewal; University

The University of Arizona's (UA) AZSecure SFS program seeks to further expand and develop training of service-motivated students to be critical public defenders of America's cyberspace. To support this, UA has obtained a designation by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), Research (CAE-R), and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO), making UA one of the few public institutions with all three prestigious CAE designations. In 2018, UA was granted Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status by the Department of Education, the first of Arizona's three state universities to receive this designation. Through targeted recruitment efforts, the program's goal is to increase the representation of women, underrepresented minorities, and active or veteran military members in cybersecurity fields. The program is deliberately multidisciplinary, integrating cybersecurity education and research across the campus. Due to the success of the university's SFS program and as direct evidence of program sustainability and institutionalization, the UA recently launched a multidisciplinary MS in Cybersecurity program. In addition, in 2018 UA developed a new industry-focused Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) program with significant funding from the college and university. This project will help fuel a sustained, institutionalized cybersecurity education program that will have significant impacts on the state of Arizona and the nation. The program consists of an innovative curriculum that combines coursework with hands-on experiential learning through research, teaming students with experienced faculty mentors to develop deeper expertise than coursework alone can provide. University of Arizona will continue to focus the current efforts on building a program for Arizona, and to capitalize on its many geographic strategic advantages. Arizona has a higher percentage of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and a greater number of military bases than many states. By leveraging its four-year colleges, working professionals with an undergraduate degree, and military veterans and reservists reentering civilian life, UA have a diverse and talented recruitment pool to draw from. The goal is for these groups to account for at least 50% of the university's qualified applicant pool and a commensurate part of accepted scholarship recipients. The proposed SFS program renewal fuses education and experiential learning through research to produce knowledgeable professionals in key and emerging cybersecurity domains, such as: cyber threat intelligence, large-scale vulnerability assessment, social engineering, and cybersecurity big data. Its innovative and cross-disciplinary curriculum includes dedicated coursework and significant research with world-class faculty mentors. The program will contribute to meaningful curriculum development, sustained institutionalization of critical cybersecurity education, and a well-trained workforce of cybersecurity professionals for the U.S. government.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

亚利桑那大学（UA）AZSECURE SFS计划旨在进一步扩展和开发对服务动机的学生的培训，以成为美国网络空间的关键公共捍卫者。为了支持这一点，UA已获得国家安全局（NSA）和国土安全部（DHS）的指定，是网络防御（CAE-CD），Research（CAE-R）和网络运营（CAE-CO）的学术卓越中心（CAE）中心（CAE），使UA成为了UA，这是UA与所有三个挑剔的Cae Cae指定的少数公共机构之一。 2018年，UA被教育部授予西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）地位，这是亚利桑那州三所州立大学接受此名称的第一家。通过有针对性的招聘工作，该计划的目标是增加网络安全领域中妇女的代表性，代表性不足的少数民族以及活跃或退伍军人的军事成员。该计划是故意多学科的，在整个校园内整合了网络安全教育和研究。 由于大学的SFS计划的成功以及作为计划可持续性和制度化的直接证据，UA最近启动了网络安全计划的多学科MS。此外，2018年UA开发了一个新的以行业为中心的行业奖学金（SFI）计划，并获得了大学和大学的大量资金。该项目将有助于推动一项持续的制度化网络安全教育计划，该计划将对亚利桑那州和国家产生重大影响。该计划由一个创新的课程组成，该课程通过研究结合了课程和动手体验学习，使学生与经验丰富的教师导师组成，以发展比仅课程工作所能提供的更深的专业知识。亚利桑那大学将继续将目前的努力集中在为亚利桑那州建立计划，并利用其许多地理战略优势。亚利桑那州的少数族裔服务机构（MSIS）比许多州拥有更高比例的军事基地。通过利用其四年制大学，具有本科学位的工作专业人员以及重新进入平民生活的军人和预备役人员，UA拥有多样化且才华横溢的招聘池。目的是使这些小组至少占大学合格申请人池的50％，并且是公认奖学金获得者的一部分。拟议的SFS计划的更新通过研究融合了教育和体验式学习，以在关键和新兴的网络安全领域中培养知识渊博的专业人员，例如：网络威胁智能，大规模的脆弱性评估，社会工程以及网络安全大数据。它的创新和跨学科课程包括专门的课程以及与世界一流的教职导师的重要研究。该计划将有助于有意义的课程开发，持续的批判网络安全教育的制度化以及美国政府网络安全专业人员的训练有素的劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Labeling Hacker Exploits for Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence: A Deep Transfer Learning Approach

• DOI: 10.1109/isi49825.2020.9280548
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)
• 作者: Benjamin Ampel;Sagar Samtani;Hongyi Zhu;Steven Ullman;Hsinchun Chen

Distilling Contextual Embeddings Into A Static Word Embedding For Improving Hacker Forum Analytics

将上下文嵌入提炼为静态词嵌入以改进黑客论坛分析

• DOI: 10.1109/isi53945.2021.9624848
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2021
• 作者: Ampel, Benjamin;Chen, Hsinchun
• 通讯作者: Chen, Hsinchun

LINKING EXPLOITS FROM THE DARK WEB TO KNOWN VULNERABILITIES FOR PROACTIVE CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE: AN ATTENTION-BASED DEEP STRUCTURED SEMANTIC MODEL1

将暗网的漏洞与主动网络威胁情报的已知漏洞联系起来：基于注意力的深层结构化语义模型1

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: MIS quarterly
• 影响因子: 7.3
• 作者: Samtani, S;Chai, Y;and Chen, H.
• 通讯作者: and Chen, H.

Counteracting Dark Web Text-Based CAPTCHA with Generative Adversarial Learning for Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence

• DOI: 10.1145/3505226
• 发表时间: 2022-01
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
• 作者: Ning Zhang;Mohammadreza Ebrahimi;Weifeng Li;Hsinchun Chen

Smart Vulnerability Assessment for Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: An Unsupervised Graph Embedding Approach

• DOI: 10.1109/isi49825.2020.9280545
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)
• 作者: Steven Ullman;Sagar Samtani;Ben Lazarine;Hongyi Zhu;Benjamin Ampel;Mark W. Patton;Hsinchun Chen