An Innovative Cybersecurity Curriculum for Civilian and Military Workforce

面向民事和军事人员的创新网络安全课程

• 批准号: 1129534
• 负责人: Xinming Ou
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129534&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovative; Cybersecurity; Curriculum; Civilian; Military

In this SFS Capacity Building project, the Center for Information and Systems Assurance (CISA) at Kansas State University, which is a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R), is collaborating with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) and Manhattan Area Technical College (MATC) to develop a comprehensive cybersecurity/information assurance curriculum appropriate for the different student bodies at the three institutions. Kansas State University is a public land-grant university with a high level of research activity. CGSC's mission is to educate military officers to support the Army's operational requirements. MATC is a two-year public institution of higher education.Four courses constitute the overall curriculum being developed: Introduction to Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, Emerging Threats in Cyberspace, Advanced Cyber-Offense and -Defense Technologies, and Cyber-Warfare.Expected outcomes of the project are:* a comprehensive cybersecurity curriculum that addresses the challenge of educating and providing hands-on training to students of broad academic backgrounds;* courses with innovative modules and lesson plans based on lab exercises, warfare, and cyber-threat scenarios that can seamlessly integrate security education content throughout different parts of existing information technology curricula;* detailed instructional manuals to accompany each course module; and* enhancement of faculty expertise in cybersecurity at the partnering institutions.Course materials are being created, piloted, and evaluated at the three institutions, and are being made available to a wider audience via the Web. The investigators are also using connections with other regional colleges and leveraging other initiatives at Kansas State -- e.g., Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), GK-12 STEM Fellows, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), and Girls Researching Our World (GROW) -- to extend the reach of the curriculum.

在这个SFS能力建设项目中，堪萨斯州立大学的信息与系统保障中心(CISA)是信息保障研究(CAE-R)的学术卓越中心，它正在与美国陆军指挥与总参谋部学院(CGSC)和曼哈顿地区技术学院(MATC)合作，开发适合这三所机构不同学生群体的综合网络安全/信息保障课程。堪萨斯州立大学是一所公立土地赠与大学，研究活动水平很高。CGSC的任务是教育军官支持陆军的作战要求。MATC是一所为期两年的公立高等教育机构。四门课程构成了正在开发的整体课程：信息保障和网络安全概论、网络空间的新威胁、先进网络攻防技术和网络战。该项目预期的结果是：*一个全面的网络安全课程，以应对教育和向具有广泛学术背景的学生提供实践培训的挑战；*基于实验室练习、战争和网络威胁情景的创新模块和教案，可以将安全教育内容无缝地整合到现有信息技术课程的不同部分；*每个课程模块都有详细的教学手册；*加强合作机构在网络安全方面的专业知识。这三家机构正在创建、试行和评估课程材料，并通过网络向更广泛的受众提供课程材料。调查人员还利用与其他地区性学院的联系，并利用堪萨斯州立大学的其他倡议--例如教师研究经验(RET)、GK-12 STEM研究员、本科生研究经验(REU)和女孩研究我们的世界(Growth)--扩大课程的覆盖范围。