Spreading SEEDs: Large-Scale Dissemination of Hands-on Labs for Security Education

这个能力建设项目旨在解决学生缺乏网络安全体验学习机会的问题。虽然实验室不再全面短缺，但许多教师在他们的课程中使用它们感到不舒服。这个项目有可能帮助许多教师为他们的学生提供动手学习的机会。该项目基于30个SEED实验室，这些实验室是PI在过去十年中开发和测试的，由来自26个国家的150多名教师使用。这些实验室涵盖了广泛的安全原理，并已被证明在加强学生学习方面是有效的。该项目还将开发新的实验室，以涵盖网络安全教育的一个及时主题：移动计算安全。美国国家科学基金会的CyberCorps®SFS计划资助解决网络安全教育和劳动力发展的项目。奖学金项目为网络安全专业的学生提供奖学金。作为奖学金的回报，获奖者将在毕业后为联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织工作，担任与网络安全相关的职位，工作时间与奖学金的期限相同。能力跟踪计划寻求创新建议，以提高美国高等教育企业培养网络安全专业人员的能力。该项目有两个具体目标：1)利用现有的大型在线开放课程（MOOC）平台，通过组织多个夏季研讨会，每个研讨会约有30名参与者，并开发每个实验室一个的免费在线课程模块，大幅增加SEED实验室的用户数量；2)开发新的动手实验室，以解决已经引入其独特网络安全问题的移动设备的安全问题。该项目的最终目标是对提供网络安全课程的学术机构产生变革性影响。该项目的目标是覆盖700所学校，约占美国所有大学和学院的15%。这将创建一个强大的社区，将承载这个项目的目标远远超过其到期日期。该项目还将在移动系统安全领域培养教育和研究的整合。拟议的Mobi-SEED实验室源自移动系统安全的前沿研究项目。

This capacity building project seeks to addresses the lack of opportunities for students for experiential learning of Cybersecurity. Although there is no overall shortage of labs anymore, many instructors do not feel comfortable using them in their courses. This project has a potential to help many instructors to provide hands-on learning opportunities to their students. The project is based on the 30 SEED labs, which were developed and tested by the PI over the last ten years and are used by over 150 instructors from 26 countries. These labs cover a wide spectrum of security principles and they have proven to be effective in enhancing student learning. The project will also develop new labs to cover a timely topic in Cybersecurity education: security in mobile computing. The NSF's CyberCorps® SFS program funds projects that address cybersecurity education and workforce development. The Scholarship Track provides funding to award scholarships to students in cybersecurity. In return for their scholarships, recipients will work after graduation for a Federal, State, Local, or Tribal Government organization in a position related to cybersecurity for a period equal to the length of the scholarship. The Capacity Track seeks innovative proposals leading to an increase in the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce cybersecurity professionals. There are two specific objectives of this project: 1) to dramatically increase the number of users of the SEED labs by organizing several summer workshops with about 30 participants each and by developing free online course modules, one for each lab, using one of the existing Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) platforms; and 2) to develop new hands-on labs to address security of mobile devices which have introduced their unique Cybersecurity problems. The ultimate goal of this project is to make a transformative impact on academic institutions offering Cybersecurity courses. The project sets its goal to reach 700 schools, or about 15 percent of all universities and colleges in the United States. This will create a strong community that will carry the objectives of this project far beyond its expiration date. The project will also cultivate the integration of education and research in the area of mobile system security. The proposed Mobi-SEED labs are derived from the cutting-edge research projects on mobile-system security.