Oklahoma Center for Information Assurance and Forensics Education (OCIAFE)

在其发展的早期，联邦网络安全计划主要针对四年制学院和大学，在很大程度上忽视了两年制大学。然而，两年制大学教育了44%的美国本科生，并为数百万高中生提供服务。此外，它们为很大一部分美国劳动力提供了继续教育和技能提升的机会。ATE区域卓越中心解决了在两年制大学建立可行项目的需求。它包括六个关键实体：俄克拉荷马州的职业和技术教育（CareerTech）系统；俄克拉何马州最大的四所两年制学院（俄克拉何马市社区学院、俄克拉何马州立大学奥克穆尔基分校、玫瑰州立学院和塔尔萨社区学院）；塔尔萨大学（University of Tulsa）是国家安全管理局指定的国家教师发展中心，是两年制院校的主要培训提供者和导师。这六个实体覆盖了俄克拉荷马州近60%的人口和超过70%的IT劳动力。通过与其他大学和两年制学院的合作，该中心旨在为俄克拉荷马州和邻近州的主要人口中心提供教育和培训机会。该中心正在为区域和国家的两年制学院编写和传播信息保障和取证课程；为两年制大学的教师提供职业发展机会，并协助他们在自己的机构建立项目；设计和实施信息保障和取证方面的劳动力发展计划，这有助于经济发展和国家国土安全工作。该中心的课程有五个核心领域：(1)信息保障，(2)安全电子商务，(3)网络安全，(4)企业安全管理，(5)取证。本课程涵盖了该学科的广度，包括其技术、操作和管理层面，以及相关的法律和道德问题。课程及其密集的实验室组成部分已被纳入网络安全副学士学位和证书课程，并映射到行业（思科，微软）和供应商中立（CompTIA， SCP， CIW）认证和联邦（CNSS）标准。课程不断完善和升级。通过电子学习网络、基于web的存储库和移动实验室，传统课程的传播和交付工作得到了加强。讲师培训和项目构建工作采用分层的“培训培训师”模型，旨在实现可伸缩性和自我维持增长。该模式由课程工作组会议、教师发展研讨会和实习机会补充。该中心最初只有8个地点的13名教师，现在的目标是整合84名专家教师，在俄克拉荷马州和5个邻近州（阿肯色州、科罗拉多州、堪萨斯州、新墨西哥州和德克萨斯州）的10个CareerTech中心和18所两年制大学教授课程。该中心有强大的机制来招募、保留和安置代表性不足的群体和弱势群体的成员。少数民族学生和女性分别占参与院校招生人数的30%和50%。此外，第一代大学生占入学率的50%以上。最后，工业、政府和军队的广泛参与，以及俄克拉荷马州州长、商务部长和高等教育部长的大力支持，确保了该中心为国土安全倡议、创造劳动力和经济发展，以及俄克拉荷马州和邻近州两年制机构的学术项目做出贡献。

In the early years of their development, federal cybersecurity initiatives have primarily targeted four-year colleges and universities, largely ignoring two-year colleges. Yet, two-year colleges educate 44% of U.S. undergraduates and serve millions of high school students. Furthermore, they provide continuing education and skill-upgrading opportunities to a large percentage of America's workforce.This ATE Regional Center of Excellence addresses the need to build viable programs at two-year colleges. It incorporates six key entities: Oklahoma's Career and Technology Education (CareerTech) System; four of Oklahoma's largest two-year colleges (Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee, Rose State College, and Tulsa Community College); and the University of Tulsa, an NSA-designated national faculty development center, which serves as the principal training provider and mentor to the two-year institutions. These six entities cover almost 60% of Oklahoma's population and more than 70% of its IT workforce. By leveraging partnerships with other universities and two-year colleges, the center aims to provide education and training opportunities throughout Oklahoma and in major population centers in neighboring states.The center is developing and disseminating information assurance and forensics curricula to two-year colleges, both regionally and nationally; offering professional development opportunities to instructors from two-year colleges and assisting them in building programs at their own institutions; and designing and implementing workforce development programs in information assurance and forensics, which contribute to economic development and the national homeland security effort.The center's curriculum has five core areas: (1) information assurance, (2) secure electronic commerce, (3) network security, (4) enterprise security management, and (5) forensics. This curriculum covers the breadth of the discipline, including its technical, operational, and managerial dimensions, and related legal and ethical issues. The curriculum and its intense laboratory component have been incorporated into associate degree and certificate programs in cybersecurity and are mapped to industry (Cisco, Microsoft) and vendor-neutral (CompTIA, SCP, CIW) certifications and federal (CNSS) standards. The curriculum is continuously refined and upgraded. Traditional curriculum dissemination and delivery efforts are enhanced by an e-learning network, a Web-based repository, and mobile laboratories.The instructor training and program building efforts employ a tiered "train-the-trainer" model designed for scalability and self-sustaining growth. The model is complemented by curriculum working group meetings, faculty development workshops, and residency opportunities. From its beginning with 13 instructors at 8 sites, the center aims to incorporate 84 expert instructors teaching courses at 10 CareerTech centers and 18 two-year colleges in Oklahoma and 5 neighboring states (Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas).The center has strong mechanisms for recruiting, retaining, and placing members of underrepresented groups and underprivileged individuals. Minority students and females constitute, respectively, 30% and 50% of the participating institutions' enrollments. Moreover, first-generation college students constitute more than 50% of enrollments.Finally, broad participation by industry, government, and the military and strong support from Oklahoma's Governor, Secretary of Commerce, and Chancellor of Higher Education ensure that the center is contributing to homeland security initiatives, workforce creation, and economic development, as well as to academic programs at two-year institutions in Oklahoma and in neighboring states.