Oklahoma Center for Information Assurance and Forensics Education (OCIAFE)

在其发展的最初几年，联邦网络安全倡议主要针对四年制学院和大学，基本上忽视了两年制学院。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，它们为美国大部分劳动力提供继续教育和技能提升的机会。该地区卓越中心解决了在两年制大学中建立可行课程的需要。它包括六个关键实体：俄克拉荷马州的职业与技术教育(CareerTech)系统；俄克拉荷马州四所最大的两年制学院(俄克拉荷马市社区学院、俄克拉荷马州立大学-奥克马尔吉、罗斯州立学院和塔尔萨社区学院)；以及塔尔萨大学，这是美国国家安全局指定的全国教师发展中心，是两年制院校的主要培训机构和导师。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员工。通过与其他大学和两年制学院的伙伴关系，该中心旨在为整个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。该中心正在开发和向地区和全国的两年制学院传播信息保证和取证课程；为两年制学院的教师提供专业发展机会，并帮助他们在自己的机构建立课程；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)法医。本课程涵盖该学科的广泛领域，包括其技术、操作和管理方面，以及相关的法律和道德问题。课程及其密集的实验室部分已纳入网络安全方面的副学士学位和证书课程，并与行业(思科、微软)和供应商中立(CompTIA、SCP、CIW)认证和联邦(CNSS)标准相对应。课程设置不断细化升级。传统的课程传播和交付工作通过电子学习网络、基于Web的存储库和移动实验室得到加强。教师培训和项目建设工作采用分层的“培训者培训”模式，旨在实现可伸缩性和自我维持的增长。该模式还包括课程工作组会议、教师发展研讨会和实习机会。该中心从最初的8个地点的13名讲师开始，目标是在俄克拉荷马州和邻近的5个州(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的84名专家讲师。该中心有强大的机制来招募、保留和安置代表不足的群体和贫困个人的成员。少数民族学生和女性学生分别占参与机构招生人数的30%和50%。此外，第一代大学生占学生总数的50%以上。最后，行业、政府和军队的广泛参与以及俄克拉何马州州长、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、劳动力创造和经济发展做出贡献，并为俄克拉荷马州和邻近各州的两年制院校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.