Building Educational Capacity in Cyber Operations

这项建议旨在通过在经过验证的远程访问环境中创建和部署具有文化多样性的教育内容，让学生和教职员工获得重要的动手体验，从而改善全国各地网络运营专业学生的教育体验。虽然一些学术机构正在开发专门用于网络运营的课程，更多的机构正在尝试纳入旨在让学生对这一领域的挑战有一个深刻的基本了解的材料，但体验式学习机会目前受到个别机构资金的限制；需要提供隔离的实验室基础设施，以便可以安全地研究这些主题；以及与开发现实的跨文化情景相关的挑战。这项CyberCorps：SFS能力建设提案寻求建立在NSF资助的远程可访问虚拟环境(RAVE)项目的成功基础上，以及阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学(UAF)在开发和提供计算机安全实验室环境和练习方面的十年经验。它开发了网络操作练习，并向全国各地机构的教职员工和学生免费提供。该项目结合了适合文化的虚拟机，以扩展产生的场景的真实感，这些场景具有遵循NSF资助的安全注入@Towson演示模型的一致格式。该项目使用了一名专门使用远程访问环境的外部评估员。

This proposal seeks to improve the educational experience of cyber operations students around the nation by creating and deploying culturally diverse educational content in a proven remotely accessible environment, allowing students and faculty to obtain vital hands-on experience. While several academic institutions are developing programs dedicated to cyber operations, and many more are attempting to incorporate materials designed to give students a strong fundamental understanding of the challenges in this arena, experiential learning opportunities are currently limited by individual institutional funding; the need to provide isolated lab infrastructure in which these topics can be safely studied; and the challenges associated with developing realistic multicultural scenarios. This CyberCorps: SFS capacity-building proposal seeks to build on the successful NSF-funded Remotely Accessible Virtualized Environment (RAVE) Project and a decade of experience at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in developing and delivering computer security lab environments and exercises. It develops cyber operations exercises and makes them available to faculty and students at institutions around the nation at no charge. This project incorporates culturally-appropriate virtual machines to extend the realism of the resulting scenarios which have a consistent format following the NSF-funded Security Injections @ Towson presentation model. The project uses an external evaluator specializing in the use of remotely accessible environments.