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铺开，不仅给人们的日常生活带来了便利，也催生了可能危及每个人隐私和国家安全的威胁。因此，对未来的员工进行与先进网络基础设施相关的移动安全基本方面的培训和教育，并提高他们识别、预防和应对新出现的威胁的能力，是至关重要的。这个项目设计和开发了各种各样有趣的和具有挑战性的动手实验室，旨在创造Eureka的经验，参考“啊哈！”理解一个以前难以理解的概念的时刻。这种富有启发性的学习体验是通过将探究性学习(IBL)活动融入动手实验室而创造的。总体而言，该项目满足了计算机科学和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能力和与先进网络基础设施相关的移动安全准备具有强大的影响，并有助于促进国家安全。在该项目中，设计和开发了三种类型的动手实验室：i)探索性实验室；ii)核心实验室；以及iii)高级实验室。探索性实验室的主要目的是激发不同背景的高中生和社区大学生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职业的兴趣。核心实验室帮助STEM的本科生和研究生在互动环境中通过实践练习持久地了解关键的安全概念和技术，为从事富有成效的网络安全职业做好准备。高级实验室不仅可以引入新兴的安全技术和威胁，还可以激发学生在相关领域的研究，从而帮助未来的研究队伍发展。此外，还设计并开发了一个价格合理、灵活的通用实验平台。该项目帮助开发与先进网络基础设施相关的多个领域的核心能力，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，以及防止入侵。通过在开发过程中动员所有利益相关者，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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.