SFS: A Cybersecurity Educational Partnership for the Government Workforce

SFS：政府员工网络安全教育合作伙伴

• 批准号: 1946607
• 负责人: Sarah Heckman
• 金额: $ 274.86万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946607&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SFS; Cybersecurity; Educational; Partnership; Government

The computing and communications infrastructure upon which the United States relies has been shown again and again to be vulnerable to attack, disruption, infiltration, and subversion. The result is a very rapid growth in the need for trained cybersecurity professionals, particularly in government. To address this need, this project will provide two years of scholarship support to students pursuing a specialization in cybersecurity. Specific attention will be given to the recruitment of females, veterans, minorities, and first-generation college students. North Carolina State University plans to partner with community colleges in North Carolina to aid in the recruitment of a diverse group of students. A recruiting pipeline will be developed and include community colleges and K-12 outreach. Students will receive a technically deep education that will be well-grounded in the context of government functions, priorities, and resources. In addition, the impact of the project will extend beyond the scholarship recipients with the establishment of a new undergraduate Cybersecurity Concentration and enhancement of the existing graduate Cybersecurity Track.North Carolina State University is designated as a Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research. Each year four undergraduate students and one master’s degree student will be selected for support. Significant efforts will be made to recruit outstanding students and to ensure diversity in the recruited class. A partnership with one or more community colleges will be established to expand the pool of potential students. New courses will be added to the curriculum, including a capstone Cybersecurity Project course and a course on Recent Topics in Cybersecurity. The project will also support the development of a new concentration in cybersecurity for undergraduate students that will graduate at least 25 students per year. The project will benefit from exceptionally strong ties with industry and government employers. Cybersecurity professionals will be recruited as adjunct instructors, which will bring an important industry perspective to the coursework. Students will engage in an internship with a government employer during their training and will participate in a variety of related supplemental experiences, including professional certifications, research projects, national cybersecurity competitions, a guest speaker series, travel to national meetings, and K-12 outreach. The Department of Computer Science will support the placement of graduates in government positions and will host an annual job fair with government employers. The Cybersecurity Education Director will coordinate the project and an external team will continually assess the effectiveness of the approach.This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.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.

美国所依赖的计算和通信基础设施一再被证明容易受到攻击、破坏、渗透和颠覆，其结果是对训练有素的网络安全专业人员的需求迅速增长，特别是在政府部门。为了满足这一需求，该项目将为攻读网络安全专业的学生提供两年的奖学金支持，并将特别关注招募女性、退伍军人、少数族裔和北卡罗来纳州立大学计划的第一代大学生作为合作伙伴。与北卡罗来纳州的社区大学合作，帮助招募将开发一个多元化的学生群体，其中包括社区学院和 K-12 外展，学生将接受以政府职能、优先事项和资源为基础的深入技术教育。通过建立新的本科网络安全专业并增强现有的研究生网络安全课程，该项目的影响将超越奖学金获得者。北卡罗来纳州立大学被指定为国土安全部和国家安全局学术卓越中心每年有四名本科生和网络防御研究。将选择一名硕士学位学生作为支持。将大力招收优秀学生，并确保招收班级的多样性。将与一所或多所社区大学建立合作伙伴关系，以扩大潜在学生的数量。该项目还将支持为本科生开设新的网络安全专业，每年至少有 25 名学生将从中受益。与行业的紧密联系网络安全专业人员将被聘为兼职讲师，这将为课程带来重要的行业视角，学生将在培训期间与政府雇主进行实习，并将参加各种相关的补充经验，包括专业经验。认证、研究项目、国家网络安全竞赛、客座演讲系列、参加国家会议和 K-12 外展活动 计算机科学系将支持毕业生担任政府职位，并将与政府雇主举办年度招聘会。网络安全教育总监将协调该项目外部团队将不断评估该方法的有效性。该项目得到 Cyber​​Corps® 服务奖学金 (SFS) 计划的支持，该计划资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致毕业后，奖学金获得者必须在其奖学金支持期限内为联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织从事网络安全工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为有资格获得通过使用基金会的智力评估进行支持优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。