Cybersecurity Scholarship-for-Service Renewal at The University of Arizona:The AZSecure SFS Program

亚利桑那大学(UA)的AZSecure SFS项目寻求进一步扩大和发展对服务动机学生的培训，使他们成为美国网络空间的关键公共捍卫者。为了支持这一点，UA获得了美国国家安全局(NSA)和国土安全部(DHS)的指定，成为网络防御(CAE-CD)、研究(CAE-R)和网络运营(CAE-CO)领域的学术卓越中心(CAE)，使UA成为少数三个都拥有这三个著名CAE称号的公共机构之一。2018年，亚利桑那州大学被教育部授予拉美裔服务机构(HSI)地位，这是亚利桑那州三所州立大学中第一所获得这一称号的大学。通过有针对性的招募工作，该计划的目标是增加女性、代表性不足的少数族裔以及活跃或退伍军人在网络安全领域的代表性。该项目刻意涉及多学科，将整个校园的网络安全教育和研究整合在一起。由于该大学SFS项目的成功，以及作为项目可持续性和制度化的直接证据，UA最近启动了一个多学科的网络安全MS项目。此外，2018年，UA开发了一个新的以行业为重点的行业奖学金(SFI)计划，得到了学院和大学的大量资金。该项目将有助于推动一个持续的、制度化的网络安全教育计划，这将对亚利桑那州和全国产生重大影响。该项目包括一个创新的课程，通过研究将课程作业与实践经验学习相结合，将学生与经验丰富的教师导师合作，开发出比课程作业单独提供的更深层次的专业知识。亚利桑那大学将继续集中目前的努力，为亚利桑那州建设一个项目，并利用其许多地理战略优势。亚利桑那州拥有比许多州更多的少数民族服务机构(MSI)和更多数量的军事基地。通过利用其四年制大学、拥有本科学位的工作专业人员以及重新进入平民生活的退伍军人和预备役人员，UA拥有多样化和有才华的招聘池可供选择。目标是让这些群体至少占该大学合格申请者总数的50%，并在被接受的奖学金获得者中占到相应比例。拟议的SFS计划更新融合了教育和通过研究进行的经验学习，以培养关键和新兴网络安全领域的知识型专业人员，例如：网络威胁情报、大规模漏洞评估、社会工程和网络安全大数据。它的创新和跨学科课程包括专门的课程和世界级教师导师的重要研究。该计划将为有意义的课程开发、关键网络安全教育的持续制度化以及美国政府训练有素的网络安全专业人员队伍做出贡献。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 University of Arizona's (UA) AZSecure SFS program seeks to further expand and develop training of service-motivated students to be critical public defenders of America's cyberspace. To support this, UA has obtained a designation by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), Research (CAE-R), and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO), making UA one of the few public institutions with all three prestigious CAE designations. In 2018, UA was granted Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status by the Department of Education, the first of Arizona's three state universities to receive this designation. Through targeted recruitment efforts, the program's goal is to increase the representation of women, underrepresented minorities, and active or veteran military members in cybersecurity fields. The program is deliberately multidisciplinary, integrating cybersecurity education and research across the campus. Due to the success of the university's SFS program and as direct evidence of program sustainability and institutionalization, the UA recently launched a multidisciplinary MS in Cybersecurity program. In addition, in 2018 UA developed a new industry-focused Scholarship-for-Industry (SFI) program with significant funding from the college and university. This project will help fuel a sustained, institutionalized cybersecurity education program that will have significant impacts on the state of Arizona and the nation. The program consists of an innovative curriculum that combines coursework with hands-on experiential learning through research, teaming students with experienced faculty mentors to develop deeper expertise than coursework alone can provide. University of Arizona will continue to focus the current efforts on building a program for Arizona, and to capitalize on its many geographic strategic advantages. Arizona has a higher percentage of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and a greater number of military bases than many states. By leveraging its four-year colleges, working professionals with an undergraduate degree, and military veterans and reservists reentering civilian life, UA have a diverse and talented recruitment pool to draw from. The goal is for these groups to account for at least 50% of the university's qualified applicant pool and a commensurate part of accepted scholarship recipients. The proposed SFS program renewal fuses education and experiential learning through research to produce knowledgeable professionals in key and emerging cybersecurity domains, such as: cyber threat intelligence, large-scale vulnerability assessment, social engineering, and cybersecurity big data. Its innovative and cross-disciplinary curriculum includes dedicated coursework and significant research with world-class faculty mentors. The program will contribute to meaningful curriculum development, sustained institutionalization of critical cybersecurity education, and a well-trained workforce of cybersecurity professionals for the U.S. government.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.