Education DCL: EAGER: Enhancing Cybersecurity Awareness of American Indian Farmers and Food Producers: The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska as a Case Study

教育 DCL：EAGER：增强美洲印第安农民和食品生产者的网络安全意识：以内布拉斯加州庞卡部落为例

• 批准号: 2335812
• 负责人: George Grispos
• 金额: $ 11.64万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska at Omaha
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; DCL; EAGER; Enhancing; Cybersecurity

As information technology is increasingly integrated into modern farms, the food and agriculture industry has become a focal point for cybercriminals and nation-state actors. With many American Indian farmers and food producers selling farm products directly to their tribe, any potential cybersecurity attack impacting such farmers could have disastrous food security consequences for an entire community. This project creates a more secure workforce in the food and agriculture industry through the design and delivery of a cybersecurity educational and workforce initiative. The project's novelties are a curriculum that focuses on cybersecurity risks and threats in the food and agriculture industry, which also takes into consideration culturally sensitive materials for American Indian farmers and food producers. In addition to the specific curriculum, the project's broader significance and importance are the creation of guidelines and lessons learned for creating and maximizing the delivery of cybersecurity educational content to American Indian farmers and food producers.The project contributes to the growing research on cybersecurity curriculum development and the broader improvement of cybersecurity awareness in the farming and agriculture communities. The first contribution is the development of a ten-module cybersecurity course, mapped to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework. These modules help educate and train American Indian farmers and food producers about cybersecurity practices, risks, and threats in the food and agriculture industry. The second contribution of the project is the creation of guidelines and lessons learned emerging from the delivery of the cybersecurity curriculum to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, as well as other American Indian Tribes in Nebraska and the surrounding states. Finally, the cybersecurity curriculum is available to the wider community, providing a foundation for future cybersecurity educational initiatives in the farming and agriculture domain.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.

随着信息技术越来越多地融入现代农场，粮食和农业行业已成为控制论犯罪分子和民族国家参与者的焦点。许多美洲印第安人的农民和食品生产商将农产品直接向其部落出售，任何潜在的网络安全攻击影响了这些农民，可能会对整个社区造成灾难性的粮食安全后果。该项目通过设计和交付网络安全教育和劳动力倡议，在食品和农业行业中创造了更安全的劳动力。该项目的新颖性是一项课程，侧重于食品和农业行业的网络安全风险和威胁，该课程还考虑了对美洲印第安人农民和食品生产商的文化敏感材料。除了具体的课程外，该项目的更广泛的重要性和重要性是创建指导方针和经验教训，以创建和最大化网络安全性教育内容向美洲印第安人农民和食品生产者提供。该项目为网络安全课程的发展做出了不断增长的研究。第一个贡献是开发了十个模块的网络安全课程，该课程映射到了良好的网络安全劳动力框架。这些模块帮助教育和培训美洲印第安人的农民和食品生产商有关食品和农业行业的网络安全实践，风险和威胁。该项目的第二个贡献是创建指导方针和经验教训，从提供网络安全课程到内布拉斯加州的庞卡部落以及内布拉斯加州及其周边国家的其他美洲印第安人部落。最后，更广泛的社区可以使用网络安全课程，为农业和农业领域的未来网络安全教育计划提供了基础。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和更广泛影响的评估评估来通过评估来获得支持的。