CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Building Research-minded Cyber Leaders

Cyber​​Corps 服务奖学金：培养具有研究意识的网络领导者

• 批准号: 2336409
• 负责人: Derek Hansen
• 金额: $ 373.5万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336409&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CyberCorps; Scholarship; Service; Building; Research

This project will establish a new CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Brigham Young University (BYU). Over the next five years, this project will support 23 undergraduate and graduate students studying Cybersecurity. These future cyber leaders will enter the government workforce with a strong grounding in cybersecurity's technical and human dimensions. SFS undergraduate and graduate students will have opportunities to participate in faculty-mentored research, BYU’s Security Operations Center (SOC), a new CyberClinic, cybersecurity and networking clubs, competitions, career fairs, government internships, and outreach efforts. In addition, this project will enable strategic enhancements at BYU designed to increase the cybersecurity student diversity profile, build a strong community among SFS students, and promote student research. This will, in turn, provide the government with an increasingly diverse set of capable, well-connected graduates ready to solve the cybersecurity challenges of today and the future.The BYU SFS program is designed to motivate students to become ethical cyber leaders in government, raise the visibility of cybersecurity programs and opportunities at BYU, and further develop partnerships with government agencies. The project will support an SFS student research symposium, a government cybersecurity career event tied to BYU’s STEM Fair, and new diversity outreach efforts that will better integrate efforts across campus (e.g., BYU Engineering BE Together, Women in Cybersecurity Club, CS Belonging, Women in Computer Science, BYU Multicultural Student Services) and the community to recruit more women, minorities, and first-generation students into the field. A new Cybersecurity SFS Seminar will help build a community among SFS students and faculty and bring in experts from other universities and government agencies. Students participating in research will work with faculty studying high-priority areas, including AI and cybersecurity, human aspects of cybersecurity, embedded systems security, network security, and cybersecurity education. Graduate SFS students will complete a rigorous thesis centered around a cybersecurity topic, helping prepare them for cutting-edge research within government institutions.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.

该项目将在杨百翰大学 (BYU) 设立新的 Cyber​​Corps® 服务奖学金 (SFS) 计划，在未来五年内，该项目将支持 23 名学习网络安全的本科生和研究生，这些未来的网络领导者将进入政府工作队伍。 SFS 本科生和研究生在网络安全的技术和人员方面具有深厚的基础，将有机会参与教师指导的研究、杨百翰大学安全运营中心 (SOC)、新的网络诊所、网络安全和网络俱乐部，此外，该项目还将促进杨百翰大学的战略增强，旨在提高网络安全学生的多样性，在 SFS 学生中建立强大的社区，并促进学生研究。 ，为政府提供越来越多样化的有能力、人脉广泛的毕业生，准备好解决当今和未来的网络安全挑战。杨百翰大学 SFS 项目旨在激励学生成为政府中的网络道德领导者，提高网络安全的知名度杨百翰大学的项目和机会，以及进一步该项目将支持 SFS 学生研究研讨会、与杨百翰大学 STEM 博览会相关的政府网络安全职业活动，以及新的多元化外展活动，以更好地整合整个校园的工作（例如，杨百翰大学 Engineering BE Together、Women in Cyber​​security）。俱乐部、计算机科学归属、计算机科学女性、杨百翰大学多元文化学生服务）和社区招募更多女性、少数族裔和第一代学生进入该领域新的网络安全 SFS 研讨会将帮助在 SFS 学生中建立一个社区。参与研究的学生将与研究高优先级领域的教师合作，包括人工智能和网络安全、网络安全的人为因素、嵌入式系统安全、网络安全和网络安全研究生教育。学生将围绕网络安全主题完成一篇严谨的论文，帮助他们为政府机构内的前沿研究做好准备。该项目得到 Cyber​​Corps® 服务奖学金 (SFS) 计划的支持，该计划资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案并与美国国家网络保持一致培养优秀网络安全人才的战略。毕业后，奖学金获得者必须在其奖学金支持期限内为联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织从事网络安全工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。