EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity Education via a Machine Learning-Enabled Security Knowledge Graph

EAGER：SaTC-EDU：通过机器学习支持的安全知识图进行网络安全教育的人工智能

基本信息

批准号：
2114789
负责人：
Huan Liu
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
Arizona State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-05-01 至 2024-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114789&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER SaTC EDU Artificial Intelligence

项目摘要

Cybersecurity education is exceptionally challenging because its learning outcomes often comprise fragmented information that fails to provide learners with adaptive guidance on how to connect and build on the concepts they have learned. This project will develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cybersecurity tool referred to as a knowledge graph (AISecKG) to address this cybersecurity education challenge. Knowledge graphs, widely used by search engines and social networks, integrate data and can store linked descriptions of items such as objects, concepts, and events. This project applies a novel learning approach for cybersecurity education by providing university students a flexible learning plan that enhances their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This approach aims to help students understand the complex nature of cyber-attacks and defense mechanisms, provide them with a holistic view and better prepare them to address the complexities of real-world scenarios. The development and deployment of AISecKG are interdisciplinary. First, the project employs machine learning (ML) and AI approaches to build a new cybersecurity knowledge graph by measuring and setting up similarities and dependencies among cybersecurity learning targets for both study planning and learning-outcome assessment. Second, it incorporates a multi-level assessment approach to design cybersecurity curricula, scaffold student cognitive engagement, and improve student learning outcomes. AISecKG has two primary design goals. First, it will guide instructors to develop a problem-based learning curriculum based on their learning objectives. Second, it will allow students to apply an adaptive learning strategy, incorporating hands-on labs to assess their learning outcomes. To assess students’ learning performance quantitatively, AISecKG will (a) deploy an evidence-based model and learning materials for problem-based cybersecurity education focusing on developing teacher capacity and practice while using targeted materials and approaches; (b) produce a productive teaching model for deep learning that promotes a culture of scientific inquiry and design as well as a set of strategies to develop student competency; and (c) provide evidence of student learning outcomes as a pedagogical resource to support student cognitive engagement in learning tasks interactively. This project is supported by a special initiative of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program to foster new, previously unexplored, collaborations between the fields of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.

网络安全教育受到了极大的挑战，因为它的学习成果通常完整的零散信息，这些信息无法为学习者提供有关如何建立他们所学的概念的适应性指导。该项目将开发一个人工智能（AI）支持的网络安全工具，称为知识图（Aiseckg），以应对这一网络安全教育挑战。知识图，搜索引擎和社交网络广泛使用，集成了数据，可以存储对象，概念和事件等项目的链接描述。该项目通过为大学生提供一个灵活的学习计划，以提高他们的批判性思维和解决问题的技能，从而采用一种新颖的学习方法来进行网络安全教育。这种方法旨在帮助学生了解网络攻击和防御机制的复杂性质，为他们提供整体观点，并更好地准备他们以解决现实世界情景的复杂性。 Aiseckg的发展和部署是跨学科的。首先，该项目采用机器学习（ML）和AI方法，通过测量和建立网络安全学习目标之间的相似性和依赖性来构建新的网络安全知识图，以进行研究计划和学习结果评估。其次，它结合了设计网络安全课程，脚手架学生认知参与并改善学生学习成果的多层次评估方法。 Aiseckg有两个主要的设计目标。首先，它将指导教师根据他们的学习目标开发基于问题的学习课程。其次，它将允许学生采用自适应学习策略，并入实践实验室来评估他们的学习成果。为了定量评估学生的学习绩效，Aiseckg将（a）为基于问题的网络安全教育部署基于证据的模型和学习材料，重点是发展教师能力和实践，同时使用针对性的材料和方法；（b）为深度学习生产富有成效的教学模型，以促进科学探究和设计的文化以及发展学生能力的一系列策略；（c）提供学生学习成果作为教学资源的证据，以支持学生认知参与方面的学习任务。该项目得到了安全且值得信赖的网络空间（SATC）计划的特别主动，以促进网络安全，人工智能和教育领域之间的新，以前出乎意料的合作。 SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究与发展战略计划以及国家隐私研究策略保持一致，以保护和维护网络系统的社会和经济益处，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定使命，并通过评估诚实地表示支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（8）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Can Knowledge Graphs Reduce Hallucinations in LLMs? : A Survey

DOI：
10.48550/arxiv.2311.07914
发表时间：
2023-11
期刊：
ArXiv
影响因子：
0
作者：
Garima Agrawal;Tharindu Kumarage;Zeyad Alghami;Huanmin Liu
通讯作者：
Garima Agrawal;Tharindu Kumarage;Zeyad Alghami;Huanmin Liu

Development and Validation of the Uncertainty Management in Problem-Based Learning Scale in Postsecondary STEM Education

中学后 STEM 教育中基于问题的学习量表的不确定性管理的开发和验证

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2023.
影响因子：
0
作者：
Park, Jongchan;Deng Yuli;Agrawal Garima;Techawitthayachinda Ratrapee;Chen Ying-Chih;Huang Dijiang;Liu Huan.
通讯作者：
Liu Huan.

Problems of Problem-Based Learning: Exploring Meta-Agency in Problem-Based Cybersecurity Learning in College Education

基于问题的学习的问题：探索大学教育中基于问题的网络安全学习的元代理

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2023
影响因子：
0
作者：
Park, Jongchan;Deng Yuli;Agrawal Garima;Techawitthayachinda Ratrapee;Chen Ying-Chih;Huang Dijiang;Liu Huan
通讯作者：
Liu Huan

AISecKG: Knowledge Graph Dataset for Cybersecurity Education

AISecKG：网络安全教育知识图数据集