Collaborative Proposal: Scalable Virtual Machine Laboratory Systems for Supporting the Development of New Information Assurance Programs

本合作项目涉及信息保证（IA）实验室系统的开发和改进，目的是了解实施的障碍，所涉及的教学问题，以及如何更好地将开发IA项目纳入先进的教学技术。这个项目的目标是：(1)找到在开发和现有的IA项目中使用大型虚拟机实验室的问题、障碍和好处；(2)通过扩展现有的虚拟机实验室系统和开发新的练习来解决这些问题；(3)通过实践研讨会、开源软件和通过网站传播的练习向其他教师传播这项工作。该项目有趣的方面包括将虚拟机实验室系统集成到高中和大学生的网络防御程序中。高中的努力起到了推广和招聘的作用，让高中生参与到与信息技术相关的职业中来——这是一个全国需要的领域。此外，这一努力与信息保障硕士学生远程教育的顶点课程联系在一起。

Computer Science (31)This collaborative project involves the development and refinement of Information Assuarance (IA) laboratory systems with the goal of understanding the roadblocks to implementation, the pedagogical issues involved, and how to better involve developing IA programs in advanced teaching technology. The goals for this project are to: (1) Find the issues, roadblocks, and benefits of using large scale virtual machine laboratories in both developing and existing IA programs; (2) Address these issues by extending existing virtual machine laboratory systems and developing new exercises for them; and (3) Disseminate this work to other faculty through hands-on workshops, open source software and exercised disseminated via websites.Interesting aspects of this project include the the integration of virtual machine laboratory systems into cyber-defense programs for high school and college students. The high school efforts serve as outreach and recruitment to get high school students involved in IT-related careers -- an area of national need. Additionally, this effort is tied into a capstone course for distance education for M.S. students in information assurance.