SaTC: EDU: Software Defined Radio Wars for Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Education

无线网络的普遍使用产生了对学生的需求，他们接受的培训是将安全性纳入新系统的设计限制中，而不是事后才考虑。德雷克塞尔大学的这个项目建议利用软件定义无线电(SDR)提供的实践学习机会，强调网络安全和信息保障的跨学科性质。研究人员的目标是通过开发和提供由一系列3门课程组成的学术课程来实现他们的目标，这些课程包括围绕SDR的各种跨学科自由度的竞争(无线电战争)。学生将被要求安全地传输信息，同时防止其他人这样做。在接触材料的整个过程中，学生将从无线通信基础知识开始，然后深入了解如何在无线电中添加加密、身份验证和电源管理模块。研究人员将使用评估技术，重点了解课程是否为学生提供了对学科工作真实的学习经验，并促进了与网络安全领域出类拔萃相关的内容、知识和技能的发展。该项目旨在通过利用与美国国家安全局的联系，以及为高中生提供学习机会，在让网络安全人员为劳动力做好准备方面产生更广泛的影响，这将使他们及早接触到网络安全、工程和STEM领域。最后，该团队计划通过传播课程材料来最大化它们的影响，这些材料是为其他研究人员设计的，以便能够采用它们。Ettus USRP N210特别提款权平台提供了实施无线电战所需的灵活性和易用性，因此将作为拟议项目的平台。该项目将利用德雷克塞尔大学的天花板安装的SDR电网网络作为“战场”。将实施可视化记分牌系统，以实时反馈学生的进步。该系统将要求学生使用特定的API调用。该项目的第一年将侧重于使用GNU无线电、超高清和Python编程来开发课程和硬件/软件主干。该项目的第二年将提供无线电战争课程。学生将被要求实施各种加密(AES、TLS、IPSec、WEP和WPA2)和身份验证技术以最大限度地提高分数。学生队在比赛中的每一次行动都将被记录下来并计分。该项目希望开发一个教育套件，开始为网络安全和信息保障教育做准备，就像“战斗机器人”为机器人学和机械工程教育所做的那样。

The pervasive use of wireless networks has created a demand for students who are trained to include security in the design constraints of new systems, not as an afterthought. This project from Drexel University proposes to leverage the hands-on learning opportunities offered by software defined radios (SDRs) to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of cybersecurity and information assurance. The researchers aim to accomplish their goal by developing and offering an academic curriculum that consists of a series of 3-courses with competitions (Radio Wars) centered around various interdisciplinary degrees of freedom of a SDR. Students will be tasked to securely transmit information, while preventing others from doing so. Throughout their exposure to materials, students will start with wireless communication basics and dive into adding encryption, authentication, and power management modules to their radios. The researchers will use assessment techniques focused on understanding whether the curriculum provides students with a learning experience that is authentic to the work of the discipline and promotes development of content knowledge and skills relating to excelling in the cybersecurity field. The project aims to have broader impacts in preparing cybersecurity individuals for the workforce by leveraging connections with the NSA as well as offering learning opportunities to high school students, which will expose them early on to cybersecurity, engineering and STEM fields. Finally, the team plans to maximize their impacts by disseminating the course materials designed for other researchers to be able to adopt them. The Ettus USRP N210 SDR platform provides the flexibility and ease of use needed to implement Radio Wars and will thus serve as the platform for the proposed project. The project will leverage the ceiling mounted SDR grid network at Drexel University as the "battleground". A visual scoreboard system will be implemented for real-time feedback for student progress. This system will require specific API calls to be used by students. The first year of the project will focus on developing the curriculum and the hardware/software backbone using GNU Radio, UHD, and Python programming. The second year of the project will be when the Radio Wars courses will be offered. Students will be asked to implement various encryption (AES, TLS, IPSec, WEP and WPA2) and authentication techniques to maximize their score. Each action taken by student teams during the competition will be logged for scoring. The project hopes to develop an educational suite that will begin to do for cybersecurity and information assurance education what "Battlebots" does for robotics and mechanical engineering education.