Information Assurance Education Simulation

EIA 0325339Ronald DodgeU. S.军事学院头衔：信息保障教育模拟ITR中等奖为创建提供信息保障实践培训的工具提供支持。这项研究将通过模拟提供一个环境，为用户提供构建和管理信息系统所需的化身。 这个解决方案，正在美国军事学院（USMA）的原型，解决缺乏动手训练，通过建立一个信息保证模拟，集成了维护信息系统基础设施所涉及的所有复杂性，并使其广泛提供给教育设施。 这些复杂性包括硬件配置、服务要求、将系统“调整”到正确的容量、系统管理支持和安全配置。 这个基于模拟的教学应用程序允许用户构建网络，实施策略和管理系统管理员。 在构建网络之后，用户可以针对网络运行一系列场景，并根据网络负载或安全攻击来观察网络的失败或成功。 该模拟允许用户探索人员，程序，硬件，软件和数据之间的相互关系，以及这些因素中的每一个如何影响网络设计和安全性。 该项目的智力价值集中在该项目强大的研究和教育重点上。该研究跨越了学科的界限，为教学和理解计算机网络的建设，管理和安全的基础提供了一个强大的工具。实施网络仿真工具集的概念将允许在全国各地的各种机构进行信息保证问题的封闭实验室实验。 由此产生的系统应提供一个平台，以加强许多学科和环境中的教育。该项目有一个健全的评估计划，应清楚地表明研究的教育以及技术效益，以多种受众，该项目的更广泛的影响是提供广泛的，成本效益高的工具，解决国家需要的一个领域的分布。这将使设施不多、专业知识有限的教育机构能够获得可扩展的信息保证教育工具。模拟中提供的可扩展性和场景管理允许广泛的教育机构将这些工具有效地纳入其课程。该项目的重点是通过客户端控制的环境学习网络的信息保证方面，而无需广泛的工程先决条件。完整的模拟结合了构建和管理信息系统的各个方面，创建了一个无缝的应用程序，提供了一个集成的，引人入胜的，具有挑战性的和有竞争力的信息保证学习环境。

EIA 0325339Ronald DodgeU. S. Military AcademyTitle: Information Assurance Education SimulationThis ITR medium award provides support to create tools that provide hands-on training in information assurance. The research will provide an environment through simulation that presents a user with avatars needed to construct and manage an information system. This solution, being prototyped at the United States Military Academy (USMA), addresses the lack of hands-on training by building an information assurance simulation that integrates all the complexities involved in maintaining an information system infrastructure and making it widely available to educational facilities. These complexities include hardware configuration, service requirements, "sizing" the system to the correct capacity, system administrative support, and security configuration. This simulation-based pedagogical application allows users to construct networks, impose policies, and manage system administrators. After constructing a network, the user can run a series of scenarios against the network and watch as the network fails or succeeds based on network load or security attacks. This simulation allows the user to explore the interrelationships between people, procedures, hardware, software, and data and how each of these factors impacts on network design and security. The intellectual merit of the project is centered on the strong research and educational focus of the project. The research crosses the boundaries of disciplines by offering a robust tool for teaching and understanding the fundamentals of construction, management, and security of computer networks. The concept of implementing a network simulation toolset will allow closed-lab experimentation with information assurance issues at a variety of institutions across the nation. The resulting system should provide a platform for enhancing education in many disciplines and settings. The project has a sound evaluation plan that clearly should demonstrate the educational as well as technological benefits of the research to multiple audiences.The broader impact of this project is in providing wide-spread, cost-effective distribution of tools that address an area of national need. This should allow educational institutions with modest facilities and limited expertise to have access to a scalable tool for information assurance education. The scalability and scenario management provided in the simulation allow a wide range of educational institutions to productively incorporate the tools into their curriculum. The emphasis in this project is information assurance aspects of networks through a client-controlled environment for learning without extensive engineering prerequisites. The complete simulation combines all facets of building and managing an information system, creating a seamless application that provides an integrated, engaging, challenging, and competitive information assurance learning environment.