Catalyst Project: Increasing Access and Inclusiveness in Cybersecurity through Lab Experiences

催化剂项目：通过实验室经验增加网络安全的可及性和包容性

• 批准号: 2205536
• 负责人: James Brown
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: Shaw University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2205536&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Project; Increasing; Access; Inclusiveness

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, improve research and teaching at the institution, and involve undergraduate students in research experiences. Shaw University seeks to establish a dedicated Cyber Operations Lab on campus. The lab will consist of workstations capable of hosting virtualized environments where students can engage in simulated cyber operations, such as, red-team/blue-team exercises, vulnerability assessments, capture-the-flag-competitions, etc. The lab will also provide students a secure and isolated environment to practice skills which should not be exercised in public domains, such as vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.The Cyber Operations Lab will support the Cyber Operations 12-course concentration of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree at Shaw University. The Cyber Operations concentration provide students with a foundation in programming, data structures, networks, security policy and risk, virtualization, malware analysis, and ethical hacking. A physical lab is required for students to learn those skills on actual hardware and software they can expect to encounter in their future cybersecurity roles. Accordingly, this project will support the establishment of a lab with hardware capable of running multiple virtual machines with isolated network environments and software, such as Packet Tracer, WireShark, Process Hacker, and ProcDot, to conduct network and malware analysis. In addition, the Cyber Operations Lab will be used to offer cybersecurity-related events for high school students to increase interest and build a pipeline for them to enter the workforce through Shaw University. Finally, the Cyber Operations Lab will house the Cy(Bear)security Research Group which is focused on Internet of Things intrusion detection using Artificial Immune Systems and Deep Neural Network for dynamic network monitoring and medical device penetration testing to identify any vulnerabilities or weaknesses. This project will give students the opportunity to learn desirable skills in cybersecurity and help to close the minority representation gap that exists in the STEM workforce.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.

催化剂项目为历史上的黑人学院（HBCU）提供了支持，以努力建立教师的研究能力，以增强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的本科教育和研究。可以预期，该奖项将进一步进一步促进教职员工的研究能力，改善机构的研究和教学，并让本科生参与研究经验。肖大学试图在校园内建立一个专门的网络运营实验室。该实验室将包括能够托管虚拟化环境的工作站，学生可以在其中参与模拟的网络操作，例如红色团队/蓝色团队练习，脆弱性评估，捕获量的竞争方式等。实验室还将提供学生是一个安全且孤立的环境，以练习技能，不应在公共领域（例如脆弱性扫描和渗透测试）进行技能。网络运营实验室将支持Cyber​​ Operations在Shaw的计算机科学学士学位的Cyber​​ Operations 12课程专注大学。网络运营集中度为学生提供了编程，数据结构，网络，安全政策和风险，虚拟化，恶意软件分析和道德黑客的基础。学生需要一个物理实验室，才能在未来的网络安全角色中学习这些技能的实际硬件和软件。因此，该项目将支持建立一个具有硬件的实验室，能够运行具有隔离网络环境和软件的多个虚拟机，例如数据包示踪剂，Wireshark，Process Hacker和Procdot，以进行网络和恶意软件分析。此外，网络运营实验室将用于为高中生提供与网络安全有关的活动，以增加兴趣并建立一条管道，让他们通过肖大学进入劳动力。最后，网络操作实验室将容纳CY（Bear）安全研究小组，该小组的重点是使用人工免疫系统和深层神经网络进行动态网络监测和医疗设备渗透测试，以识别任何脆弱性或弱点。该项目将使学生有机会学习网络安全方面的理想技能，并有助于缩小STEM劳动力中存在的少数派代表差距。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的评估来支持的。影响审查标准。