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

亚利桑那大学（UA） AZSecure SFS项目旨在进一步扩大和发展对具有服务动机的学生的培训，使他们成为美国网络空间重要的公共捍卫者。为了支持这一点，UA获得了国家安全局（NSA）和国土安全部（DHS）的指定，作为网络防御（CAE- cd），研究（CAE- r）和网络运营（CAE- co）的学术卓越中心（CAE），使UA成为少数拥有所有三个著名CAE指定的公共机构之一。2018年，UA被教育部授予西班牙裔服务机构（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、代表性不足的少数民族、现役或退伍军人在网络安全领域的代表性。该项目是跨学科的，整合了整个校园的网络安全教育和研究。由于大学的SFS项目的成功，以及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硕士项目。此外，在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，该计划得到了学院和大学的大量资助。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，该计划将对亚利桑那州和全国产生重大影响。该计划包括一个创新的课程，通过研究将课程与实践体验式学习相结合，将学生与经验丰富的教师导师组合在一起，以培养比单独课程所能提供的更深入的专业知识。亚利桑那大学将继续致力于为亚利桑那建立一个项目，并利用其许多地理战略优势。亚利桑那州少数民族服役机构（msi）的比例比许多州都高，军事基地的数量也比许多州多。通过利用其四年制大学，拥有本科学位的工作专业人员，以及重返平民生活的退伍军人和预备役人员，UA有一个多样化的人才招募池。目标是让这些群体至少占大学合格申请人总数的50%，并在接受的奖学金获得者中占相应的比例。拟议的SFS计划更新通过研究融合了教育和体验式学习，以培养关键和新兴网络安全领域的知识渊博的专业人员，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。其创新和跨学科的课程包括专门的课程和重要的研究与世界一流的教师导师。该计划将有助于有意义的课程开发，关键网络安全教育的持续制度化，并为美国政府提供训练有素的网络安全专业人员队伍。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 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.