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 计划旨在进一步扩大和发展对服务型学生的培训，使其成为美国网络空间的重要公共捍卫者。为了支持这一点，UA 已被国家安全局 (NSA) 和国土安全部 (DHS) 指定为网络防御 (CAE-CD)、研究 (CAE-R) 领域的学术卓越中心 (CAE) 、网络运营 (CAE-CO)，使 UA 成为少数拥有全部三个著名 CAE 称号的公共机构之一。 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中第一所获得此称号的大学。通过有针对性的招募工作，该计划的目标是增加女性、代表性不足的少数族裔以及现役或退伍军人在网络安全领域的代表性。该项目有意跨学科，整合整个校园的网络安全教育和研究。 由于该大学 SFS 项目的成功，并且作为项目可持续性和制度化的直接证据，UA 最近推出了多学科网络安全 MS 项目。此外，2018 年，UA 在学院和大学的大力资助下制定了一项新的以行业为重点的行业奖学金 (SFI) 计划。该项目将有助于推动持续、制度化的网络安全教育计划，这将对亚利桑那州和整个国家产生重大影响。该项目包括创新课程，将课程作业与通过研究进行的实践体验式学习相结合，将学生与经验丰富的教师导师合作，以发展比单独课程作业所能提供的更深入的专业知识。亚利桑那大学将继续集中当前的努力为亚利桑那州建立一个项目，并利用其许多地理战略优势。与许多州相比，亚利桑那州拥有更高比例的少数族裔服务机构 (MSI) 和更多数量的军事基地。通过利用其四年制大学、拥有本科学位的在职专业人员以及重返平民生活的退伍军人和预备役人员，UA 拥有多元化且有才华的招聘库可供选择。我们的目标是这些群体至少占大学合格申请者总数的 50%，并在已接受的奖学金获得者中占相应比例。拟议的 SFS 计划更新将通过研究融合教育和体验式学习，以培养关键和新兴网络安全领域知识丰富的专业人员，例如：网络威胁情报、大规模漏洞评估、社会工程和网络安全大数据。其创新和跨学科课程包括专门的课程和世界一流教师导师的重要研究。该计划将有助于有意义的课程开发、关键网络安全教育的持续制度化以及为美国政府培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员队伍。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。

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

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

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.

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