Capacity Building Project in Information Assurance Education

该项目以美国国家科学基金会应有的CCLI项目为基础，发展了理工大学信息安全研究生教育和研究计划，以建立一个信息系统安全本科实验室。该项目的主要长期目标是协助满足国家对具有信息保障专门知识的专业人员队伍的需求；创建将作为广泛采用的国家模式的研究生信息保障教育的原型课程材料；建立一个信息保障实验室，使之成为提供与信息保障有关的专题的实践经验的实验环境的全国典范。活动包括：修订现有的信息保障研究生水平的课程，纳入以实践实验室为基础的经验，以补充目前在课堂上教授的理论和原理；开发新的研究生水平的课程，以补充现有课程，并形成信息保障的综合课程；建立一个由不同平台和多个互联网络组成的实验室，以促进在与信息保障有关的问题上的动手实验和项目工作；并制定信息保障研究生水平认证方案，侧重于建立和维护安全的信息系统基础设施所需的原则和实践。该项目还包括一项详细的评价和传播计划。

This project develops the graduate level education and research program in information assurance at Polytechnic University by building on an NSF DUE CCLI project for establishment of an undergraduate laboratory in information systems security. The principal long term goals of this project are to assist in meeting the national demand for a cadre of professionals with expertise in information assurance; to create prototype curricular material in graduate information assurance education that will serve as a widely adopted national model; and to establish an information assurance laboratory that becomes a national model for an experimentation environment providing hands-on experiences in topics related to information assurance.Activities include: revising existing graduate level courses in information assurance to incorporate hands-on practical laboratory based experiences that supplement the theory and principles currently being taught in the classroom; developing new graduate level courses that complement the existing courses and result in a comprehensive curriculum in information assurance; establishing a laboratory consisting of heterogeneous platforms and multiple interconnected networks to facilitate hands-on experimentation and project work in issues related to information assurance; and developing a graduate level certication program in information assurance that focuses both on principles and practice needed to build and maintain a secure information systems infrastructure. The project also includes a detailed evaluation and dissemination plan.