Capacity Building for Assured Cloud Computing

德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UTD）是美国国家安全局/国土安全部卓越教育和研究中心，正在创建一个可靠云计算能力建设项目。该项目利用了2010年美国国家科学基金会服务奖学金（SFS）奖，该奖项正在信息保障（IA）领域开展强有力的教育、研究和系统建设活动。UTD提供IA的研究生和本科课程。该项目正在开发有保障的云计算课程，并通过为每门课程引入云计算的主要组成部分，加强现有的系统安全、网络安全、数据和应用安全、安全应用的数据挖掘和数字取证等课程。该项目还增强了当前的安全云计算框架，以便学生可以在他们的课程项目中使用该框架，并为该框架构建功能，作为他们的课堂编程项目的一部分。这些课程面向学术界、政府和工业界的成员。通过NSF （GK-12）和教育部（GAANN）等机构的教育资助，UTD与少数群体建立了牢固的关系。该项目正积极从代表性不足的群体中招募学生，让他们参加有保障的云计算课程和活动。作为该项目的一部分，这些pi正在德克萨斯州一家少数族裔服务机构教授网络安全课程。

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), an NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Education and Research, is creating a capacity building program in assured cloud computing. This project leverages the 2010 NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) award, which is developing strong educational, research and system building activities in information assurance (IA). UTD offers courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in IA. This project is developing courses in assured cloud computing as well as enhancing existing courses on Systems Security, Network Security, Data and Applications Security, Data Mining for Security Applications and Digital Forensics through the introduction of a major component in cloud computing for each of these courses. The project is also enhancing the current secure cloud computing framework so that students can use this framework for their course projects and build features for the framework as part of their class programming projects. The courses are available to members of the academic, government and industrial communities. UTD has strong relationships with minority groups through education grants from agencies such as NSF (GK-12) and the Department of Education (GAANN). The project is actively recruiting students from underrepresented groups to participate in courses and activities in assured cloud computing. As part of the project, the PIs are teaching cyber security courses at a Texas minority-serving institution.