CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Preparing an Adaptable Cyber Security Workforce

爱达荷大学(UI)自2001年成立以来一直参与CyberCorps®：服务奖学金(SFS)计划。UI已经为学生进入全国各地的联邦工作队伍做好了准备，支持政府许多方面的网络安全行动和研究，包括军事、情报、执法、联邦银行、政府行动、政治部门和关键基础设施部门。这次更新UI项目将使UI能够继续教育和培训多样化、高技能和适应性强的网络安全专业人员。UI CyberCorps®活动计划的毕业生拥有扎根于数学和科学理论的基础知识，通过动手实验室学习的一套实用技能，以及以研究为导向的解决问题的创新方法。此外，毕业生还需要培养在职场中发挥作用所必需的演讲、沟通和管理技能。这使他们能够设计、开发和维护所需的安全和弹性计算系统，这对我们的政府、蓬勃发展的数字经济和国家至关重要。该项目旨在为本科生和研究生进入联邦网络工作队伍和作为一名专业人员进行终身学习做准备。这些学生将参加强调网络安全的学位课程，特别是网络安全、计算机科学或计算机工程学位。由三名教员和一名员工项目经理组成的经验丰富的团队管理着UI SFS项目，并得到附属部门其他几名教员的支持。学生将接触到广泛的网络安全概念，包括访问控制、责任、审计、密码学、网络伦理、网络安全规划和管理、计算机和网络取证、网络、网络和网络防御的法律方面、运营安全、操作系统及其防御、安全编码和软件漏洞分析。学生将有实践经验，能够探索网络安全的现实世界方面，并有机会与正在工作的政府网络安全专业人员互动。学生们将准备学习新的技术和系统，并适应网络空间和网络安全不断变化的方面。该项目得到了CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划的支持，该计划为设立或继续开展网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支优秀的网络安全队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者被要求在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作中工作，时间与他们的奖学金支持相同。这一奖项反映了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 Idaho (UI) has participated in the CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program since its inception in 2001. UI has prepared students to enter the federal workforce across the nation supporting cybersecurity operations and research in many aspects of the government, including the military, intelligence, law enforcement, federal banking, government operations, political branch, and critical infrastructure sectors. This renewal of the UI project will allow UI to continue educating and training diverse, highly skilled, and adaptable cybersecurity professionals. Graduates from the UI CyberCorps® program of activities have a foundational knowledge strongly rooted in mathematics and scientific theory, a practical set of skills learned through hands-on laboratories, and a research-oriented innovative approach to problem-solving. In addition, graduates develop the presentation, communication, and management skills necessary to be effective in the workforce. This enables them to design, develop, and maintain the needed secure and resilient computing systems critical to our government, thriving digital economy, and nation. This project aims to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for entry into the federal cyber workforce and life-long learning as a professional. These students will be enrolled in degree programs emphasizing cybersecurity, specifically with degrees in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering. An experienced team consisting of three faculty and one staff program manager, manages the UI SFS project, with support from several other faculty in affiliated departments. The students will be exposed to the breadth of cybersecurity concepts, including access control, accountability, auditing, cryptography, cyber ethics, cybersecurity planning, and management, computer and network forensics, legal aspects of cyber, networking, and network defense, operations security, operating systems and their defense, secure coding, and software vulnerability analysis. Students will have hands-on experience, the ability to explore real-world aspects of cybersecurity, and ongoing opportunities to interact with working government cybersecurity professionals. Students will be prepared to learn new technologies and systems and adapt to the ever changing aspects of cyberspace and cybersecurity. This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.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.