CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: A Clinical Rotation Approach to Professional Cybersecurity Workforce Development

Cyber​​Corps 服务奖学金：专业网络安全劳动力发展的临床轮换方法

• 批准号: 2235183
• 负责人: Rakesh Bobba
• 金额: $ 479.97万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CyberCorps; Scholarship; Service; Clinical; Rotation

This project establishes a new CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Oregon State University (OSU) to prepare highly qualified cybersecurity professionals to serve in federal, state, local, and tribal governments. Through a unique approach based on clinical rotations, the program will produce professionals ready to protect the nation's infrastructure against cyber adversaries. NSF funding will support scholarships of 29 undergraduate and graduate students in four cohorts over five years. This project will emphasize recruitment, retention, and placement of underrepresented and underserved groups in cybersecurity including women, first-generation college students, and low-income students, and will evaluate and refine the clinical rotations approach to serve as a replicable model for developing a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce. With the goal of meeting the need for well-qualified cybersecurity professionals, OSU developed the Oregon Research and Teaching Security Operations Center (ORTSOC), a world-class security operations center that serves as the cornerstone of a rotation-based model. OSU’s cybersecurity degree option provides next generation of cyber defenders and researchers a unique service-learning experience through for-credit rotations at ORTSOC, while offering cybersecurity services to underserved government and other public organizations throughout the region. Those rotations at the ORTSOC, combined with OSU’s rigorous cybersecurity curriculum and extracurricular activities, provide a unique blend of classroom and experiential learning opportunities for our cybersecurity students. Research involvement for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level will help further develop critical and creative thinking skills in the students, better preparing them to thrive in a rapidly evolving field. 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.

该项目在俄勒冈州立大学（OSU）建立了一个新的Cyber​​corps®：服务奖学金（SFS）计划，以准备高素质的网络安全专业人员，以在联邦，州，地方和部落政府任职。通过基于临床轮换的独特方法，该计划将培养准备保护国家基础设施免受网络对手的专业人员。 NSF资金将在五年内为29名本科生和研究生的科学提供支持。该项目将强调招聘，保留和位置不足的网络安全组织，包括女性，第一代大学生和低收入学生，并将评估和完善临床轮换方法，以作为发展高技能的网络安全工作的可复制模型。为了满足对合格的网络安全专业人员的需求，OSU开发了俄勒冈州的研究与教学安全操作中心（ORTSOC），这是一个世界一流的安全操作中心，是基于旋转模型的基石。 OSU的网络安全学位选项为下一代网络辩护者和研究人员提供了独特的服务学习体验，可以通过ORTSOC的贷款轮换，同时向整个地区服务不足的政府和其他公共组织提供网络安全服务。 ORTSOC的这些轮换，再加上OSU严格的网络安全课程和课外活动，为我们的网络安全学生提供了独特的课堂和经验丰富的学习机会。在本科和研究生层面的学生的研究参与将有助于进一步发展学生的批判性和创造性思维能力，更好地准备他们在快速发展的领域中蓬勃发展。该项目得到了Cyber​​corps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划的支持，该计划资助建立或持续的网络安全科学计划，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以开发出色的网络安全劳动力。毕业后，科学接受者必须在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作中工作与科学支持相同的时间。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。