CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: A Clinical Rotation Approach to Professional Cybersecurity Workforce Development

该项目在俄勒冈州立大学(OSU)建立了一个新的CyberCorps®：服务奖学金(SFS)计划，为联邦、州、地方和部落政府培养高素质的网络安全专业人员。通过一种基于临床轮换的独特方法，该计划将培养出随时准备保护国家基础设施免受网络对手攻击的专业人员。NSF的资金将在五年内支持四组29名本科生和研究生的奖学金。该项目将重点招聘、保留和安置网络安全领域中代表性不足和服务不足的群体，包括女性、第一代大学生和低收入学生，并将评估和完善临床轮换方法，作为培养一支高技能网络安全队伍的可复制模式。为了满足对高素质网络安全专业人员的需求，俄勒冈州州立大学开发了俄勒冈州研究和教学安全运营中心(ORTSOC)，这是一个世界级的安全运营中心，是基于轮换的模式的基石。俄亥俄州立大学的网络安全学位选项通过ORTSOC的学分轮换，为下一代网络捍卫者和研究人员提供独特的服务学习体验，同时为整个地区服务不足的政府和其他公共组织提供网络安全服务。ORTSOC的这些轮换，结合OSU严格的网络安全课程和课外活动，为我们的网络安全学生提供了独特的课堂和体验式学习机会。本科生和研究生的研究参与将有助于进一步培养学生的批判性和创造性思维能力，更好地为他们在快速发展的领域中茁壮成长做好准备。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。奖学金获得者毕业后必须在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织中从事网络安全工作，工作时间与他们的奖学金支持期限相同。    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。

This project establishes a new CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Oregon State University (OSU) to prepare highly qualified cybersecurity professionals to serve in federal, state, local, and tribal governments. Through a unique approach based on clinical rotations, the program will produce professionals ready to protect the nation's infrastructure against cyber adversaries. NSF funding will support scholarships of 29 undergraduate and graduate students in four cohorts over five years. This project will emphasize recruitment, retention, and placement of underrepresented and underserved groups in cybersecurity including women, first-generation college students, and low-income students, and will evaluate and refine the clinical rotations approach to serve as a replicable model for developing a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce. With the goal of meeting the need for well-qualified cybersecurity professionals, OSU developed the Oregon Research and Teaching Security Operations Center (ORTSOC), a world-class security operations center that serves as the cornerstone of a rotation-based model. OSU’s cybersecurity degree option provides next generation of cyber defenders and researchers a unique service-learning experience through for-credit rotations at ORTSOC, while offering cybersecurity services to underserved government and other public organizations throughout the region. Those rotations at the ORTSOC, combined with OSU’s rigorous cybersecurity curriculum and extracurricular activities, provide a unique blend of classroom and experiential learning opportunities for our cybersecurity students. Research involvement for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level will help further develop critical and creative thinking skills in the students, better preparing them to thrive in a rapidly evolving field. 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.