SaTC: EDU: Building a Cyber Security Enhanced Education Laboratory for Hands-on Experience Oriented Cybersecurity Education

SaTC：EDU：建立网络安全增强教育实验室，以实现面向实践的网络安全教育

• 批准号: 2154606
• 负责人: Diliang Chen
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 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: 2022-07-15 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2154606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; EDU; Building; Cyber; Security

To enhance the Nation’s cybersecurity, it is imperative to enlarge the workforce pipeline of domestic talent entering the field and broaden its diversity. Unlike many existing cybersecurity courses that mainly offer conceptual overviews and theoretical analysis, this project aims to integrate theories with well-structured hands-on practice activities. This project will develop the New Hampshire Cyber Security Enhanced Education Laboratory (NHCyberSEE Lab) to achieve this integration of theory and hands-on experience. The NHCyberSEE Lab will directly benefit a large population of college students and employees in small businesses. This education project plays a critical role in the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Cybersecurity Leadership, Education and Outreach (CCLEO), accredited by the Department of Homeland Security. The project builds a strong connection between cybersecurity education and outreach. By promoting the education of students who have to date been underrepresented in their participation in cybersecurity courses of study, this objective holds potential to increase the diversity of the cybersecurity workforce.Four goals guide this project. First is to develop a comprehensive evaluation kit for attack analysis and defense strategy assessment. Second is to advance the existing ad-hoc cybersecurity courses by supplementing the curriculum with training in practical skills, such as attack detection and mitigation. Third is to establish a cybersecurity minor, two certificate programs, and an internship pipeline to enrich the University of New Hampshire (UNH) teaching infrastructure and to build strong ties between UNH and community colleges and businesses in New Hampshire. The fourth and final goal aims to enhance existing outreach programs to attract K-12 students to STEM and increase the participation of underrepresented groups in cybersecurity education and research. The facilities available in the NHCyberSEE Lab reinforce students’ skill sets in hardware/software/system/network-level attack injection, detection, and mitigation. This project supports the development of a series of cybersecurity courses, from discovery courses for STEM and non-STEM students, undergraduate-level core curriculum and professional electives, graduate-level courses, to certificate completion internship courses. Outcomes of this project include hands-on projects, experience-oriented courses, and four outreach programs. This project will facilitate the transfer of research outcomes from previous NSF-funded projects into education materials to benefit a large pool of students. This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.

为了增强国家的网络安全，必须扩大进入该领域的国内人才队伍并扩大其多样性，与许多现有的网络安全课程主要提供概念概述和理论分析不同，该项目旨在将理论与结构良好的实践相结合。该项目将开发新罕布什尔州网络安全增强教育实验室（NHCyber​​SEE Lab），以实现理论与实践经验的结合。NHCyber​​SEE 实验室将直接使大量大学生和员工受益。小型企业。该教育项目在新罕布什尔大学网络安全领导、教育和外展中心 (CCLEO) 中发挥着至关重要的作用，该项目获得了国土安全部的认可，通过促进网络安全教育和外展之间的紧密联系。到目前为止，参与网络安全课程的学生人数不足，这一目标有可能增加网络安全劳动力的多样性。该项目有四个目标：首先是开发用于攻击分析和防御策略评估的综合评估工具包。其次是通过补充实用技能（例如攻击检测和缓解）培训来推进现有的临时网络安全课程。第三是建立一个网络安全辅修课程、两个证书课程和一个实习渠道，以丰富新罕布什尔大学（第四个也是最后一个目标是加强现有的外展计划，以吸引 K-12 学生学习 STEM，并增加代表性不足的群体对网络安全教育和教育的参与。研究中可用的设施。 NHCyber​​SEE 实验室加强学生在硬件/软件/系统/网络级攻击注入、检测和缓解方面的技能。该项目支持开发一系列网络安全课程，包括针对 STEM 和非 STEM 学生、本科生的发现课程。该项目的成果包括实践项目、经验导向课程和四个外展项目。 -资助项目该项目得到了安全可信网络空间 (SaTC) 计划的支持，该计划专门资助解决网络安全和隐私问题的提案，在本例中，SaTC 计划与联邦机构保持一致。网络安全研究与发展战略计划和国家隐私研究战略，旨在保护和维护网络系统不断增长的社会和经济效益，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力评估进行评估，认为值得支持优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。