Collaborative Project: Building An Innovative Smartphone Virtual Laboratory Environment for Cyber-security Education and Training

这个项目是一个合作的努力，涉及印第安纳州普渡大学印第安纳波利斯，罗切斯特理工学院，和田纳西州立大学。调查人员正在采取全面的方法来推进智能手机安全研究和教育。该方法包括协作虚拟实验室设计和实施、课程开发、教师专业发展和伙伴关系发展。研究人员正在开发和建设智能手机虚拟计算实验室（SVCL），以满足计算机科学、信息技术和计算机工程本科生和研究生的求知欲，并补充他们对移动的和云安全的轶事知识。该SVCL提供了一个互动和协作的学习经验，让学生从目前的研究中得出的有趣和具有挑战性的项目工作。 通过SVCL，学生可以随时随地一起工作，这反过来又有助于他们培养一种持续的学习习惯，这将有利于他们的职业生涯。以智能手机安全为统一主题，研究人员正在根据智能手机应用程序（app）安全、智能手机操作系统（OS）安全、智能手机云安全和智能手机网络安全的最新研究开发动手实验室模块。 他们还将举办研讨会，向其他机构的教师传播课程材料。通过这些努力，该项目旨在让学生了解智能手机和云计算安全的最新研究。该项目还旨在提供一个关于智能手机安全的教学/学习材料库，使学生能够通过无处不在的虚拟学习和实验环境SVCL进行学习，工作和探索。机构合作（公共，私人和HBCU）的背景为学生参与者带来了更大的多样性。

This project is a collaborative effort involving Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Tennessee State University. The investigators are taking a comprehensive approach to advance smartphone security research and education. The approach includes collaborative virtual lab design and implementation, curriculum development, faculty professional development, and partnership development.The investigators are developing and building a Smartphone Virtual Computing Laboratory (SVCL), which caters to Computer Science, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering undergraduate and graduate students' intellectual curiosity and complements their anecdotal knowledge of mobile and cloud security. The SVCL provides an interactive and collaborative learning experience to students by allowing them to work on interesting and challenging projects derived from current research. With SVCL, students can work together, anytime, anywhere, which, in turn, helps them foster a constant learning habit that will benefit their careers. Using smartphone security as the unifying theme, the investigators are developing hands-on laboratory modules from latest research on smartphone application (app) security, smartphone operating system (OS) security, smartphone cloud security, and smartphone network security. They will also host workshops to disseminate the curriculum materials to faculty at other institutions.Through these efforts, the project aims to expose students to latest research on smartphone and cloud computing security. The project also aims at delivering a repository of teaching/learning materials on smartphone security that allows students to learn, work, and explore together through ubiquitous access to the virtual learning and experimentation environment, SVCL. The background of the institutional collaboration (public, private, and HBCU) brings greater diversity to the pool of student participants.