NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Building Cybersecurity Inclusive Pathways towards Higher Education and Research (CIPHER)

NSF 包括规划拨款：构建通向高等教育和研究的网络安全包容性途径 (CIPHER)

• 批准号: 2012941
• 负责人: Hongyi Wu
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2012941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Planning; Grant; Building

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to address cybersecurity education and training in K-16.As cyber threats continue to grow in sophistication, no organization or individual is immune to cyberattacks. On one hand, there is a widening skills gap. Unfilled cybersecurity jobs are expected to reach 1.8 million by 2022, as reported by the Center for Cyber Safety and Education. On the other hand, the cybersecurity education and training institutions in the nation have found it difficult to keep pace with the growing demand for cyber talent. There exists a significant gap between K-12 and college education in cybersecurity. Moreover, it is deeply challenging to achieve diversity and inclusion given the highly technical and interdisciplinary nature of cybersecurity. Lack of partnership and coordination between education institutions further leads to gaps in the nation’s current cybersecurity education landscape. The project aims to pave the way for a national alliance for building Cybersecurity Inclusive Pathways towards Higher Education and Research (CIPHER), that will focus on a researcher-practitioner partnership for the development of fundamental, theoretically-grounded, and systematic approaches to inclusive K-16 cybersecurity education, especially for students with low socioeconomic status (SES). This project will directly benefit at least 10 school districts (with a total of 175,163 students) and a dozen colleges and universities. In the long term, it will provide essential support to inclusive cybersecurity workforce development, mitigating the massive workforce shortage and leading to long-lasting positive impacts on the national economy and social diversity. The project includes a series of planning activities to engage a full spectrum of stakeholders and prepare the groundwork for establishing CIPHER. Scholars from multiple disciplines and practitioners from multiple fields will work together to fully understand the problems and explore the design space. It will lead to fundamental findings about what administrators, educators, counselors, and parents need to know and be able to do to support cybersecurity education. The outcomes include the establishment of a CIPHER researcher-practitioner partnership that engages all stakeholders, deep understanding about the current knowledge and infrastructure gap, and creation of an inclusive model for K-16 cybersecurity education, which can be replicated national-wide for bringing cybersecurity education to all students. The project will develop a range of effective ways including online resources to engage underrepresented or underserved communities. This endeavor will lead to broader and profound impacts, reshaping the landscape of K-16 cybersecurity education in the nation.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NSF包括计划赠款，由NSF包容性在整个国家的NSF包容性资金中资助，这些社区的工程和科学领域人数不足的发现者（NSF Incluction）是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过专注于在STEM上的多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与，以提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导能力。这项计划赠款的目的是解决K-16中的网络安全教育和培训。由于网络威胁在社会化中不断增长，任何组织或个人都不受网络攻击的影响。一方面，技能差距扩大。据网络安全和教育中心报道，到2022年，未填充的网络安全工作预计将达到180万。另一方面，全国的网络安全教育和培训机构发现，很难将空间保持在对网络人才需求不断增长的情况下。 K-12与网络安全上的大学教育之间存在很大的差距。此外，鉴于网络安全的高度技术和跨学科的性质，实现多样性和包容性的挑战。教育机构之间缺乏合作伙伴关系和协调，进一步导致该国当前网络安全教育领域的差距。该项目旨在为建立网络安全包容性高等教育和研究（CIPHER）的全国联盟铺平道路，该途径将重点介绍研究人员 - 验证者的伙伴关系，以开发基本，理论上基础和系统性的方法，尤其是针对包括K-16的Cyber​​scurity教育的系统性方法，尤其是针对具有低社会经济状况的学生。该项目将直接受益于至少10个学区（总共有175,163名学生）和十二所大学。从长远来看，它将为包容性的网络安全劳动力发展提供基本支持，减轻大规模的劳动力短缺，并对国民经济和社会多样性产生持久的积极影响。该项目包括一系列计划活动，以参与各种利益相关者，并为建立密码的基础做好基础。来自多个学科的学者和来自多个领域的从业者将共同努力，以充分理解问题并探索设计空间。这将导致有关管理人员，教育工作者，相称和父母需要知道并能够做到支持网络安全教育的基本发现。结果包括建立一个密码研究者 - 抛弃者的合作伙伴关系，该伙伴关系与所有利益相关者，对当前的知识和基础设施差距的深刻了解，以及为K-16网络安全教育创建包容性模型，可以将其用于将网络安全教育带给所有学生的国家范围。该项目将开发一系列有效的方法，包括在线资源来吸引代表性不足或服务不足的社区。这项努力将导致更广泛而深远的影响，重塑全国K-16网络安全教育的景观。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子的优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是宝贵的支持。

项目成果

Designing a K-16 Cybersecurity Collaborative: CIPHER

设计 K-16 网络安全协作：CIPHER

• DOI: 10.1109/msec.2021.3050246
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IEEE Security & Privacy
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Sanzo, Karen L.;Paredes Scribner, Jay;Wu, Hongyi
• 通讯作者: Wu, Hongyi