Excellence in Research: Teaching Problem-Solving and Deductive Skills to K-12 Students Through a Forensics Course Based on Mobile Devices

利用移动的电话等技术，恶意和犯罪行为每天都在发生。缺乏训练有素的劳动力就绪的取证分析师，他们熟练掌握智能手机使用，网络犯罪和移动的网络安全知识。该项目探讨了对移动的电话进行法医分析的组织结构，以解决使用智能手机作为工具的犯罪扩散与培养熟练的分析人员应对此类犯罪之间的差距。研究人员将测试几个研究问题，以探索隔离用户操作（如文件删除和修改）的模型。由此产生的过程和框架将独立于手机的型号和类型。 该调查员和高级人员还将为6- 8年级的中学生举办夏令营，并将为本科生开设移动的数字取证课程。该项目的重点是增强现有的过程模型，平台独立过程模型（PIFPM），作为智能手机分析的框架，无论品牌或型号。实验提出了解决功能的对比，比较操作系统，通过文件路径的状态变化，并使用统计模型的污染程度进行分类。一个移动终端法医侦探营将作为杰克逊州立大学和杰克逊公立学校区的共同努力，重点是中学6-8年级。本科生研究助理将在夏令营期间参加大学和学区之间的近同行指导联合计划。将在课程中为初级和高级本科生开设一门课程。评估计划包括跟踪JSU计算机科学专业的活动对增加代表性不足的学生，特别是妇女的影响。此外，一个逻辑模型，提供了一致的投入和活动对中学生的影响？该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Malicious and criminal acts occur every day using technologies such as mobile phones. There is a shortage of trained, workforce-ready forensics analysts who are skilled and knowledgeable of smartphone use, cybercrimes, and mobile cybersecurity. This project explores an organizing structure to conduct forensic analysis of mobile phones to address the gap between proliferation of crimes using smartphones as tools and preparation of skilled analysts to address such crimes. The investigator will test several research questions to explore models to isolate user actions such as file deletions and modifications. The resulting process and framework will be independent of model and type of phone. This investigator and senior personnel will also implement a summer camp for middle school students, grades 6- 8, and will develop a course in mobile digital forensics for undergraduate students. The project focuses on enhancing an existing process model, Platform Independent Process Model (PIFPM), as a framework for analysis of smartphones, regardless of make or model. Experiments are proposed to resolve functionality by contrast, comparing operating systems, state changes via file paths, and classifying degrees of contamination using statistical models. A Mobile Device Forensics Detective Camp will be developed as a joint effort between Jackson State University and the Jackson Public Schools district, with a focus on middle school grades 6-8. Undergraduate research assistants will participate in a Near-Peer mentoring joint program between the university and the school district during the summer camp. A course will be developed for junior- and senior-level undergraduates in the curriculum. The evaluation plan includes tracking computer science majors at JSU in terms of the impact of the activities on increases of underrepresented students, especially women. Additionally, a logical model is provided that aligns inputs and activities with impacts on middle school students? perceptions of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as performance on selected metrics from the school system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.