Collaborative Proposal: Capacity Building in Cybersecurity: Broadening Participation of Women In Cybersecurity through Women in Cybersecurity Conference & Professional Developm

作为一项能力建设努力，以增加女性安全专业人员的渠道，该项目正在努力建立势头，积极努力使网络安全劳动力多样化。首次组织了网络安全中的女性(WiCyS)会议。这是一项独特的努力，旨在将学术界、工业界和政府中不同级别的女性聚集在一起，以促进网络安全领域女性的招聘、留住和晋升。田纳西理工大学正在领导与孟菲斯大学和杰克逊州立社区学院的国家信息保障教育学术卓越中心的合作伙伴关系。除了策划WiCyS会议外，项目活动包括：发展及部署“发现网络安全”工作坊，以提高学生对网络安全职业的认识及兴趣；发展及部署“促进积极学习网络安全”工作坊，以促进教师专业发展；为学生提供会后安全研究见习；透过WiCyS网上社区建立网络及辅导平台。该项目正在评估其各种活动如何有助于提高：本科生女性对网络安全继续深造的认识和兴趣，教师使用积极的学习策略教授网络安全的专业知识，女性学生参与安全实习和安全研究经验，以及女性学生加入网络兵团：服务奖学金计划。该项目的智力价值是提供有可能继续用于提高更大网络安全劳动力的意识和能力的实质和实践，特别强调在计算领域，特别是在网络安全领域代表性不足的女性。多样化劳动力的充分参与对于整合更多创造力和多角度问题解决以塑造网络安全技术至关重要。作为预期的更广泛影响的一部分，该项目有助于提高美国高等教育企业培养不同网络安全专业人员群体的能力。

As a capacity building effort to increase the pipeline of women security professionals, this project is working to build momentum toward a movement of proactive efforts to diversify the cybersecurity workforce. For the first time, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) conferences are being organized. It is a unique effort to bring together women from different levels in academia, industry and government to promote recruitment, retention and progression of women in cybersecurity. Tennessee Tech University is leading this collaborative partnership with the National Centers for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education at the University of Memphis and at Jackson State Community College. Apart from orchestrating the WiCyS conference, project activities include: development and deployment of "Discovering Cybersecurity" workshop for raising students, awareness of and interest in cybersecurity careers; development and deployment of "Facilitating Active Learning in Cybersecurity" workshop for faculty professional development, post-conference research apprenticeship in security for students; networking and mentoring platform through WiCyS online community. The project is assessing how its various activities contribute to increase: undergraduate women's awareness of and interest in pursuing further study in cyberseccurity, faculty expertise using active learning strategies to teach cybersecurity, female students' participation in security internships and security research experiences and female students' recruitment into the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service Program.The intellectual merit of this project is to provide substance and practice that has the potential to be continually used to increase awareness as well as capabilities of a greater cybersecurity workforce, with special emphasis on women who are underrepresented in computing fields and especially in cybersecurity. Full participation of a diverse workforce is crucial to integrate more creativity and multi-perspective problem solving to shape technology in cybersecurity. As a part of the expected broader impact, this project contributes to increase in the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce diverse group of cybersecurity professionals.