SFS Scholarships for Information Assurance Students

该项目正在扩大爱荷华州立大学(ISU)SFS Cyber Corps计划的能力。ISU被美国国家安全局指定为信息保障教育卓越学术特许中心，通过支持在校园内建立新的IA中心，进一步认识到信息保障(IA)领域的重要性。通过这一项目，执行支助股继续参与国家科学基金会的自给自足方案。来自电气和计算机工程系、计算机科学系、政治学系、数学系、教育领导系以及物流、运营和管理信息系统系的IA教育和研究人员将领导这个跨学科的网络兵团计划。30名学生，包括5名本科生和10名研究生组成的两个队列小组，正在与教职员工密切合作，接受IA培训，进行研究，并发展为领导者和团队成员。本科生将在三年级和四年级作为选修课完成IA研究生课程，并参与ISU IA中心的研究，从而增加他们的理学士学位，获得对IA专业做出更有意义贡献所需的技能。研究生正在完成IA课程，并通过更深入的研究努力和与主要教授的参与来培养更深层次的解决问题的技能。所有学生都和他们各自的同龄人一起参加了ISU SFS计划独特而关键的组成部分：领导力、团队合作和专业发展。通过扩大SFS计划，ISU正在制定一项全年招聘计划，特别强调增加来自代表性不足群体的参与者数量，进一步加强遴选过程，支持强大的学生群体经验，扩大对学生的指导范围，更系统地让所有学生参与IA研究，并采用其他项目成功的衡量标准。智力上的功绩。ISU SFS计划正在为联邦工作人员提供新的专业人员，他们有能力以创新的方式解决关键联邦信息基础设施的安全问题，培养专业人员作为有价值的团队成员和领导者，通过加强几个ISU研究项目来为IA知识库做出贡献，这些项目解决了入侵检测系统、网络安全、数据隐私和安全、可靠的系统和网络、安全政策和商业等重要问题，并提高了IA安全教育计划的教育能力。ISU SFS计划通过为联邦工作人员提供越来越多的IA专业人员，他们在各自的技术领域应用最佳实践，并参与终身技术、智力、领导力和公民身份发展，继续造福社会。让学生参与研究项目，并让他们在整个网络兵团经历中沉浸在领导力、团队合作和专业发展中，这为学生在离开大学之前通过必要的IA服务学习项目对社会产生更广泛的影响提供了机会。

This project is expanding the capacity of the Iowa State University (ISU) SFS Cyber Corps program. Designated by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, ISU further recognizes the importance of the information assurance (IA) field by supporting a new IA Center on campus. Through this project, ISU is continuing participation in the NSF SFS program. IA education and research faculty from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Political Science, Mathematics, Educational Leadership, and Logistics, Operations, and Management Information Systems are leading the interdisciplinary Cyber Corps program. Thirty students, comprising two cohort groups of five undergraduate and 10 graduate students, are working closely with the faculty to receive IA training, conduct research, and develop as leaders and team members. Undergraduate students are completing IA graduate courses as electives during the junior and senior years and are involved in the research of the ISU IA Center, thus augmenting their B.S. degrees with the skills needed to contribute more meaningfully to the IA profession. Graduate students are completing IA courses and developing deeper problem-solving skills through more in-depth research efforts and involvement with major professors. All students are participating with their respective cohorts for two full years in the unique and critical component of the ISU SFS program: leadership, teamwork and professionalism development.Through the expanded SFS program, ISU is developing a year-round recruiting plan with special emphasis on increasing the number of participants from underrepresented groups, further enhancing the selection process, supporting the strong student cohort experience, increasing the scope of mentoring for students, more systematically involving all students in IA research, and employing additional measures of program success. Intellectual Merit. The ISU SFS program is providing the federal workforce with new professionals who have the capacity to address the problems of securing critical federal information infrastructure in innovative ways, preparing professionals to serve as worthy team members and leaders, contributing to the IA knowledge base by enhancing several ISU research programs that address important issues including intrusion detection systems, network security, data privacy and security, dependable systems and networks, and security policy and commerce, and enhancing educational capacity of the IA security education programs.Broader Impact. The ISU SFS program is continuing to benefit society by providing the federal workforce with increased numbers of IA professionals who apply best practices in their technical fields and who engage in lifelong technical, intellectual, leadership and citizenship development. Involving students in research projects and immersing them in leadership, teamwork and professional development throughout their entire Cyber Corps experience is providing the opportunity for students to have a broader impact on society before leaving the university through required IA service-learning projects.