Collaborative Proposal: Capacity Building in Cybersecurity: Broadening Participation of Women In Cybersecurity through Women in Cybersecurity Conference & Professional Developm

作为增加女性安全专业人员渠道的能力建设努力，该项目正在努力为积极努力实现网络安全劳动力多样化的运动建立势头。第一次，妇女在网络安全（WiCyS）会议正在组织。这是一项独特的努力，汇集了来自学术界、工业界和政府不同层面的女性，以促进网络安全领域女性的招聘、保留和发展。田纳西理工大学与孟菲斯大学和杰克逊州立社区学院的国家信息保障教育学术卓越中心建立了合作伙伴关系。除了策划WiCyS会议外，项目活动还包括：开发和部署“发现网络安全”研讨会，以提高学生对网络安全职业的认识和兴趣;开发和部署“促进网络安全主动学习”研讨会，以促进教师专业发展，会后学生安全研究学徒;通过WiCyS在线社区建立网络和指导平台。该项目正在评估其各种活动如何有助于提高：女大学生对进一步学习网络安全的认识和兴趣，教师使用积极学习战略教授网络安全的专门知识，女学生参加安全实习和安全研究经验，以及女学生被招募加入网络军团：服务计划奖学金。该项目的智力价值是提供有潜力持续用于提高意识以及更大的网络安全劳动力的能力的实质和实践，特别强调在计算机领域，特别是在网络安全领域代表性不足的妇女。多元化劳动力的充分参与对于整合更多的创造力和多角度解决问题以塑造网络安全技术至关重要。作为预期更广泛影响的一部分，该项目有助于提高美国高等教育企业培养多样化网络安全专业人员的能力。

As a capacity building effort to increase the pipeline of women security professionals, this project is working to build momentum toward a movement of proactive efforts to diversify the cybersecurity workforce. For the first time, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) conferences are being organized. It is a unique effort to bring together women from different levels in academia, industry and government to promote recruitment, retention and progression of women in cybersecurity. Tennessee Tech University is leading this collaborative partnership with the National Centers for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education at the University of Memphis and at Jackson State Community College. Apart from orchestrating the WiCyS conference, project activities include: development and deployment of "Discovering Cybersecurity" workshop for raising students, awareness of and interest in cybersecurity careers; development and deployment of "Facilitating Active Learning in Cybersecurity" workshop for faculty professional development, post-conference research apprenticeship in security for students; networking and mentoring platform through WiCyS online community. The project is assessing how its various activities contribute to increase: undergraduate women's awareness of and interest in pursuing further study in cyberseccurity, faculty expertise using active learning strategies to teach cybersecurity, female students' participation in security internships and security research experiences and female students' recruitment into the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service Program.The intellectual merit of this project is to provide substance and practice that has the potential to be continually used to increase awareness as well as capabilities of a greater cybersecurity workforce, with special emphasis on women who are underrepresented in computing fields and especially in cybersecurity. Full participation of a diverse workforce is crucial to integrate more creativity and multi-perspective problem solving to shape technology in cybersecurity. As a part of the expected broader impact, this project contributes to increase in the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce diverse group of cybersecurity professionals.