EAGER: The Midwest CyberCenter

EAGER：中西部网络中心

• 批准号: 1445384
• 负责人: John Sands
• 金额: $ 29.75万
• 依托单位: Moraine Valley Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Midwest; CyberCenter

Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) seeks to perform a feasibility study of replicating and refining the Brookdale Community College (BCC) CyberCenter Program (NSF funded as DUE-1331170). Both projects design, implement and evaluate an innovative pathway from cyber talent to cyber workforce. It includes a scalable, competition-driven, hands-on education model that has a potential to help with the nation's critical shortage of cybersecurity workforce. It will incorporate on-line courses, virtual labs and access tools to decrease overall per student cost in the CyberCenter program. The student cohort will include veterans and other underrepresented populations. The project will introduce significant modifications to the existing project that focus on maintaining student preparedness while reducing program cost. The students will be provided a 24-hour access to a virtual learning environment and will be required to complete a series of labs aligned with the NICE framework. If successful, the proposed competition-based model for developing the cybersecurity technical talent has a potential for dissemination and implementation in a large number of the 1,200 community colleges nationwide. Documenting that the available open courses are sufficient to obtain industry certifications will significantly decrease the overall cost of implementing or replicating this program.A comparative analysis will be performed between the project's participants and data collected on the first cohort of the BCC program. The team will specifically measure each participant's ability to pass industry certification exams, the scores they earn as well as their overall readiness for both industry residency programs and the permanent placement in the Cybersecurity workforce. The project team will redesign elements of the BCC program to utilize existing introductory level curriculum developed with funding from the NSF. Participants will then complete the advanced SANS courses. The original project is in the second year and this project is testing a variation of the approach to increase experiential learning and open course material for foundational courses. Both projects are considered a pilot of a possible large-scale implementation in multiple states and in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS Cyber Skills Task Force recommended creation of a community college program that would feed technical talent to mission critical cyber components of DHS. It is very likely that this pilot may be implemented widely to respond to DHS Task Force recommendations.

冰碛谷社区学院（MVCC）寻求执行复制和完善布鲁克代尔社区学院（BCC）网络中心计划（NSF资助为DUE-1331170）的可行性研究。这两个项目都设计、实施和评估了从网络人才到网络劳动力的创新途径。它包括一个可扩展的、竞争驱动的、实践教育模式，有可能帮助解决美国网络安全劳动力严重短缺的问题。它将整合在线课程、虚拟实验室和访问工具，以降低网络中心项目中每个学生的总体成本。学生群体将包括退伍军人和其他未被充分代表的群体。该项目将对现有项目进行重大修改，重点是在降低项目成本的同时保持学生的准备。学生将被提供24小时的虚拟学习环境，并将被要求完成与NICE框架一致的一系列实验室。如果成功的话，提出的基于竞争的网络安全技术人才培养模式有可能在全国1200所社区学院中大量传播和实施。证明现有的公开课程足以获得行业认证，将大大降低实施或复制该计划的总体成本。将对项目参与者和BCC项目第一批收集的数据进行比较分析。该团队将专门衡量每位参与者通过行业认证考试的能力、他们获得的分数，以及他们对行业实习计划和网络安全工作人员的永久安置的总体准备情况。项目团队将重新设计BCC项目的元素，以利用由国家科学基金会资助开发的现有入门级课程。然后，参与者将完成高级SANS课程。最初的项目是在第二年，这个项目正在测试一种方法的变体，以增加基础课程的体验式学习和开放课程材料。这两个项目被视为可能在多个州大规模实施的试点，并与国土安全部（DHS）合作。国土安全部网络技能工作组建议建立一个社区大学项目，为国土安全部的关键任务网络部门提供技术人才。这一试点很可能得到广泛实施，以响应国土安全部特别工作组的建议。