Cyber-Centric Multidisciplinary Security Workforce Development

以网络为中心的多学科安全劳动力发展

• 批准号: 1922180
• 负责人: Jia Di
• 金额: $ 463.46万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 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 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1922180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cyber; Centric; Multidisciplinary; Security; Workforce

This project establishes the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the University of Arkansas, the flagship university in the State of Arkansas, with the goal to recruit, mentor, educate, and train students in the critical field of cybersecurity. Students from multiple disciplines at the undergraduate, MS and PhD levels will participate in the program. The three major departments that participate in this effort are Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. Leveraging the existing security research and education resources on campus, the proposed SFS program will provide the student scholars with cyber-centric multidisciplinary security training across cybersecurity, transportation security and critical infrastructure security. Each of these areas has an established research center. Personnel of these centers will work closely with student cohorts in training and supervising their education. These cohorts will also have the opportunity to carry out research in cutting-edge cyber-centric interdisciplinary security projects that are being conducted at the participating research centers. Furthermore, this endeavor will pursue a strong partnership with the Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) by developing pathways for students studying at NWACC to pursue advanced degrees starting with a BS and leading up to a PhD in related areas. Throughout the program, all participating students will get internship opportunities at federal agencies including the intelligence community. When completed, this endeavor is deemed to increase our nation's cyber defense capability by producing a globally competitive cyber-centric security workforce. The University of Arkansas is a DHS/NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research and this SFS effort is led by the Arkansas Security Research and Education Institute (ASCENT), which was established with cross-cutting research and education thrusts. Since this project's focus is cyber-centric security education, each student scholar will be required to take twelve hours (four courses) of cybersecurity courses, including a required course. An online background seminar series will be developed to prepare non-computer students for taking the common course. Students from non-computer majors who have adequate knowledge in the cyber field will be allowed to substitute one cybersecurity course with a security-related course in their own area. Internships at government agencies will be available for all student scholars every summer to both equip them with practical experience in working in such agencies and to allow the agencies to train and evaluate these students for placements after their graduation.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.

该项目在阿肯色州旗舰大学阿肯色大学设立了 Cyber​​Corps 服务奖学金 (SFS) 计划，旨在招募、指导、教育和培训网络安全关键领域的学生。来自多个学科的本科生、硕士和博士生将参加该项目。参与这项工作的三个主要院系是计算机科学与计算机工程、电气工程和工业工程。拟议的SFS项目将利用校园现有的安全研究和教育资源，为学生学者提供以网络为中心的多学科安全培训，涵盖网络安全、交通安全和关键基础设施安全。每个领域都有一个已建立的研究中心。这些中心的工作人员将与学生群体密切合作，培训和监督他们的教育。这些团队还将有机会对参与研究中心正在进行的以网络为中心的尖端跨学科安全项目进行研究。此外，这一努力还将与西北阿肯色社区学院 (NWACC) 建立牢固的合作伙伴关系，为在 NWACC 学习的学生提供从学士开始直至相关领域的博士学位攻读高级学位的途径。在整个计划中，所有参与的学生都将获得在包括情报界在内的联邦机构的实习机会。完成后，这一努力将通过培养一支具有全球竞争力的以网络为中心的安全劳动力来增强我们国家的网络防御能力。阿肯色大学是 DHS/NSA 网络防御研究学术卓越中心，这项 SFS 工作由阿肯色州安全研究和教育研究所 (ASCENT) 领导，该研究所是在跨领域研究和教育的基础上建立的。由于该项目的重点是以网络为中心的安全教育，因此每位学生学者将被要求学习十二个小时（四门课程）的网络安全课程，其中包括一门必修课程。将开发一个在线背景研讨会系列，帮助非计算机专业的学生为学习公共课程做好准备。具有足够网络领域知识的非计算机专业学生将被允许用自己领域的安全相关课程替代一门网络安全课程。每年夏天，所有学生学者都可以在政府机构实习，以便为他们提供在此类机构工作的实践经验，并允许机构在毕业后对这些学生进行培训和评估。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并具有通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。