CyberTraining: CIP: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Mobile Security Education by Creating Eureka Experiences

移动基础设施和应用的快速发展和推出，在给人们的日常生活带来便利的同时，也产生了危及个人隐私和国家安全的威胁。因此，就与先进网络基础设施相关的移动安全基本方面对未来劳动力进行培训和教育，并提高他们识别、预防和应对新出现威胁的能力，这一点至关重要。该项目设计并开发了各种有趣且具有挑战性的动手实验室，旨在创造尤里卡体验，参考“啊哈”的时刻，理解以前无法理解的概念。这种启发性的学习体验是通过将基于探究的学习（IBL）活动结合到实践实验室中来创造的。总体而言，该项目满足了计算机科学与信息技术课程的迫切和基本需求，对发展未来劳动力的核心竞争力和与先进网络基础设施相关的移动安全准备具有重大影响，并有助于推进国家安全。在这个项目中，设计和开发了三种类型的动手实验室：i)探索性；(二)核心;（三）先进。探索性实验室的主要目的是激发来自不同背景的高中生和社区大学生的兴趣，在与先进网络基础设施相关的移动生态系统中从事网络安全方面的职业。核心实验室通过在互动环境中动手实践，使本科生和研究生能够持久地理解关键的安全概念和技术，从而帮助STEM专业的本科生和研究生为高效的网络安全职业做好准备。先进的实验室不仅通过引入新兴的安全技术和威胁，还通过激励学生在相关领域的研究，帮助未来的研究队伍发展。此外，还设计和开发了一种经济、灵活的通用实验室平台。该项目有助于在与先进网络基础设施相关的多个领域发展核心竞争力，包括如何保护移动设备和无线系统，保护来自移动和其他来源的大规模和流数据，确保用户隐私和防止入侵。通过在开发过程中参与所有利益相关者，该项目增加了学术和专业团体广泛采用开发材料的可能性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The rapid development and rollout of mobile infrastructure and applications not only bring convenience to people's daily lives, but also give birth to threats that can jeopardize each individual's privacy and national security. Therefore, it is critical to train and educate the future workforce on the fundamental aspects of mobile security relevant to advanced cyberinfrastructure, and to improve their ability to identify, prevent, and respond to emerging threats. This project designs and develops a wide variety of intriguing and challenging hands-on laboratories that aim to create Eureka Experiences in reference to the "aha!" moment of understanding a previously incomprehensible concept. Such an illuminating learning experience is created by incorporating Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) activities to hands-on laboratories. Overall, this project meets the pressing and essential needs in the Computer Science and Information Technology curricula, has a strong impact on developing the future workforce' core competencies and preparedness in mobile security related to advanced cyberinfrastructure, and helps advance national security.In this project, three types of hands-on laboratories are designed and developed: i) Exploratory; ii) Core; and, iii) Advanced. The primary purpose of exploratory labs is to spark the interests of high school and community college students from diverse backgrounds to pursue a career in cybersecurity in mobile ecosystems related to advanced cyberinfrastructure. Core labs help prepare both undergraduate and graduate students in STEM for productive cybersecurity careers by enabling enduring understanding of key security concepts and technologies through hands-on practice in an interactive setting. Advanced labs assist future research workforce development by not only introducing emerging security technologies and threats, but also inspiring student research in related fields. In addition, a universal lab platform that is affordable and flexible is designed and developed. This project helps develop core competencies in a number of areas relevant to advanced cyberinfrastructure including how to secure mobile devices and wireless systems, protect large scale and streaming data from mobile and other sources, ensure user privacy, and prevent intrusion. By engaging all stakeholders during the development process, this project increases the likelihood of wide adoption of the developed materials by academic and professional communities.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.