IUSE: Collaborative Project: Building Virtual Research, Interactive, Service, and Experiential Learning Modules for Cyber Security Education

该项目将有助于满足更多拥有网络安全概念和技能基础的毕业生的迫切需求。 它将通过使用基于云的移动虚拟实验室（MCVE），利用网络基础设施学习经验，向印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校（IUPUI）、罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和田纳西州立大学的计算机科学（CS）、信息技术（IT）和计算机工程（CE）学生介绍网络安全材料。 可以通过添加相关的实验室模块来增强现有课程，这种方法将使学生能够直接看到如何在实际问题解决中使用计算机科学和工程概念。 该项目将促进 CS、CE 和 IT 学生在网络安全领域的招聘和留用。 此外，一些专业发展和外展研讨会将有助于增加准备提供利用相同基础系统的课程的大学教师数量，并帮助高中教师至少让学生了解网络安全问题和实践。 该项目涉及的教育活动将使用 RISE（研究、互动、服务和体验）学习组件来教授网络安全概念和技能。 学习组件将利用 MCVE 作为提供 RISE 实验室模块的机制。 MCVE 基础设施基于智能手机和云计算资源，这些资源可在三所大学通过 Amazon EC2 系统使用。 IUPUI 的云安全测试平台和 RIT 计算网格将用于创建可以进行安全实验的虚拟机和网络拓扑。 田纳西州立大学的 TSU 云将用于提供恶意软件数据库服务。 最后，Amazon Web Services 可用于安全实施实验。 这组资源将允许使用 MCVE 的学生尝试一系列系统、网络和云配置。 学生将有机会通过涵盖 CS、IT 和 CE 课程的众多课程来使用 MCVE，解决安全编程、密码学、安全架构、网络安全和安全策略问题。 项目评估将采用混合方法进行，特别关注学生通过 RISE 实验室模块获得的技能和能力的提高、学生对网络安全概念和技术之间联系的理解的变化、CS、CE 和 IT 学生的招聘和保留的变化。 评估将包括学生调查、学习成果衡量、教师访谈和课堂观察。 该项目将由本科教育部通过 IUSE 计划和研究生教育部通过 SFS 计划资助。

This project will help address the critical need for more graduates who have a foundation in cybersecurity concepts and skills. It will utilize a cyberinfrastructure learning experience, through the use of a mobile cloud-based virtual laboratory (MCVE), to introduce cybersecurity material to computer science (CS), information technology (IT), and computer engineering (CE) students at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and Tennessee State University. Existing courses can be enhanced with the addition of relevant lab modules, and this approach will make it possible for students to see directly how computer science and engineering concepts can be used in real problem-solving. This project will promote recruitment and retention of CS, CE, and IT students for careers in cybersecurity. In addition, a number of professional development and outreach workshops will help increase the number of university faculty prepared to offer courses that utilize the same underlying system, and also prepare high school teachers to, at minimum, make students aware of cybersecurity issues and practices. The educational activities involved in this project will use the RISE (Research, Interactive, Service, and Experiential) learning components in order to teach cybersecurity concepts and skills. The learning components will utilize MCVE as the mechanism for delivering the RISE laboratory modules. The MCVE infrastructure is based on smartphones and cloud computing resources that are available at the three universities and through the Amazon EC2 system. The cloud security testbed at IUPUI and the RIT computation grid will be used to create virtual machines and network topologies on which security experiments can be conducted. The TSU Cloud at Tennessee State will be used to serve a malware database. Finally, the Amazon Web Services can be used for security implementation experiments. This collection of resources will allow students who work with the MCVE to experiment with a range of system, network, and cloud configurations. Students will have the opportunity to work with MCVE through numerous courses that span the CS, IT, and CE curricula, addressing secure programming, cryptography, security architecture, network security, and security policy. Project evaluation will be done with a mixed methods approach, specifically focusing on the skills and increased competency students gain as a result of the RISE lab modules, change in student understanding of the connection between cybersecurity concepts and techniques, changes in recruitment and retention of CS, CE, and IT students. Evaluation will include student surveys, learning outcome measures, instructor interviews, and classroom observations. This project will be funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, through the IUSE program, and the Division of Graduate Education, through the SFS program.