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已准备学生进入全国各地的联邦劳动力队伍，支持网络安全运营和研究在政府的许多方面，包括军事，情报，执法，联邦银行，政府运作，政治分支和关键基础设施部门。UI项目的更新将允许UI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®活动计划的毕业生具有牢固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实用技能，以及以研究为导向的创新解决问题的方法。此外，毕业生还培养了在工作中有效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、开发和维护对我们的政府、繁荣的数字经济和国家至关重要的安全、有弹性的计算系统。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专业人员的终身学习做好准备。这些学生将攻读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。由三名教师和一名项目经理组成的经验丰富的团队管理UI SFS项目，并得到附属部门其他几名教师的支持。学生将接触到广泛的网络安全概念，包括访问控制、问责制、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、操作安全、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，探索网络安全的现实世界方面的能力，以及与工作的政府网络安全专业人员互动的持续机会。学生将准备学习新的技术和系统，并适应不断变化的网络空间和网络安全方面。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续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，以培养优秀的网络安全劳动力。毕业后，奖学金获得者必须在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全部门工作，工作时间与奖学金支持时间相同。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 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.