I-Corps: CyberExercises, Instructional Modules Development for Exercise-based Teaching of CyberSecurity Concepts

I-Corps：网络练习、网络安全概念基于练习的教学的教学模块开发

• 批准号: 1514603
• 负责人: Akbar Siami Namin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1514603&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; CyberExercises; Instructional; Modules; Development

At the present time there is a lack or absence of comprehensive offering of online/offline cybersecurity related exercise-based training and a certification program. Offering such a curriculum can have a broad impact on promoting cyber security education and practices across various organizations. This learning technology can have a significant impact on elevating the quality and the quantity of cyber security courses offered by two and four-year colleges and thus fosters an exponential increase in the number of nationally demanded cyber security professionals. This I-Corps team intends to enhance the curriculum in cyber-security pedagogies and raise the knowledge dissemination prowess of the national and international community in academia. The proposed project introduces online/offline training instructional modules to train individuals interested in learning various aspects of cyber-security through specialization tracks along with a leveling certification program carefully crafted to address the needs of students of two and four-year college students. The project also offers scientifically developed course materials for instructors with the aim of facilitating teaching. The primary target audiences in this project are community college, upper division and four year collegiate faculty. This online/offline learning development project is codenamed, "CyberExercises" and has several features that rectify the previously mentioned issues and consequently, provides a relatively unique position in the market to commercialize our certification program. The first and leading competitive advantage with this project is the development of cyber-security simulations, exercises, and attack use cases designed to replicate real world problems. This allows hands-on expertise in areas specifically relevant to the participant and raises the ability of these individuals to negate the malicious effects caused from them. A second relevant competitive advantage is the creation of specific tracks customized to each individual. Several cyber-security certification programs exist, but the competition usually has a generic program that lead individuals to focus on irrelevant material, in fields unrelated to their own, and often results in ineffectual information retention.

目前，缺乏或缺乏全面的在线/离线网络安全相关的基于演习的培训和认证计划。提供这样的课程可以对促进各种组织的网络安全教育和实践产生广泛的影响。这种学习技术可以对提高两年制和四年制大学提供的网络安全课程的质量和数量产生重大影响，从而促进国家需求的网络安全专业人员数量的指数增长。这个I-Corps团队打算加强网络安全教学课程，并提高国内和国际学术界的知识传播能力。拟议的项目引入了在线/离线培训教学模块，通过专业化轨道和精心设计的水平认证计划来培训对学习网络安全各个方面感兴趣的个人，以满足两年制和四年制大学学生的需求。该项目还为教师提供科学编制的课程材料，以促进教学。这个项目的主要目标受众是社区学院、高年级和四年制大学教师。这个在线/离线学习开发项目的代号为“网络练习”，它有几个特点，纠正了前面提到的问题，因此，在市场上提供了一个相对独特的位置，使我们的认证计划商业化。该项目的首要竞争优势是开发网络安全模拟、演习和攻击用例，旨在复制现实世界的问题。这允许在与参与者特别相关的领域中实践专业知识，并提高这些个人的能力，以消除由他们引起的恶意影响。第二个相关的竞争优势是为每个人量身定制的特定赛道。有几个网络安全认证项目存在，但竞争通常是一个通用的项目，导致个人专注于不相关的材料，在与自己无关的领域，并经常导致无效的信息保留。