Collaborative Proposal: An Extensible Software Platform for a Virtual Cyber Security Laboratory

在本合作项目中，五所院校正在开发计算机网络安全教学课件。该课件包括一个用于虚拟网络安全实验室的开源软件平台和附带的实验室作业，并基于两个机构先前nsf资助的项目。正在开发的实验材料为学生提供了网络安全课程的实践经验。正在开发的课件使其他机构可以很容易地用很少的硬件创建自己的虚拟实验室，并且需要最小的维护和管理成本。该课件是可扩展的，因此其他人可以使用专门的模块对其进行扩展。在关键信息基础设施保护方面，该项目提高了国家教育能力，增加了信息安全人才队伍，提高了国家研发能力。

Computer Science (31)In this collaborative project, five institutions are developing courseware for teaching computer network security. The courseware comprises an open source software platform for a virtual cyber security laboratory and accompanying lab assignments and is based on prior NSF-funded projects at two of the institutions. The laboratory materials being developed give students hands-on experiences in cyber security courses.The courseware being developed makes it easy for other institutions to create their own virtual laboratories with very little hardware and requires minimal maintenance and administration cost. The courseware is extensible so others can augment it with specialized modules.With respect to critical information infrastructure protection, the project results in increased national capacity for education, new entrants to the information security workforce, and increased national research and development capabilities.