Cyber Service! Interdisciplinary & Experiential Education for Cyber Forensics Technicians

根据2015年(ISC)2全球劳动力研究，信息安全劳动力短缺正在扩大，因为对安全从业人员的需求正在危险地超过当前的供应。在近1,400名受访者中，62%的人表示他们的组织信息安全专业人员太少，比2013年的调查增加了6%。这一缺口非常严重，预计到2020年将达到150万名安全从业人员。该项目名为新泽西州联合县学院(UCC)的网络服务，旨在解决美国严重的网络安全劳动力短缺问题。创新的课程设计侧重于中等技能网络取证技术人员的培养。体验式教育和服务学习被整合到课程中，以保持学生的参与度，提供关键的劳动力准备技能，并向学生灌输对社区服务的承诺。通过将以社区为基础的服务学习体验融入副学士学位课程。网络服务旨在促进准备进入高薪网络取证行业的不同学生群体，成为中等技能的技术人员。该项目计划将该项目中至少35%的学生确定为在科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域传统上代表性不足的群体(例如，女性、非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人)。网络服务具有很大的潜力，可以作为其他社区学院的全国示范。计划通过国家网络观察中心、ATE中心、ATE TV和计算机械协会社区学院计算教育委员会(ACM CCECC)以及国家网络教育和体验教育会议，在全国范围内传播专门为网络取证技术人员开发的课程和服务学习材料。Cyber Service将解决增加熟练网络取证技术人员的迫切需要，以填补新泽西州北部和纽约市大都市区雇主的高需求职位，并提高学生在获得大专学历方面的留存率和毅力，同时为毕业生培养21世纪的职业准备技能。该项目将改编NSF ATE高级网络取证教育(ACE)联盟的四门数字取证课程。然后，网络服务将通过创建三个新课程来扩展ACE的工作，以补充联盟课程，并将创新的体验式教育和服务学习整合到整个计划课程中。这三门新课程分别是1)云计算和移动设备取证，2)网络法律和伦理，以及3)服务学习网络顶峰。专家项目团队将开发一系列嵌入式、可堆叠的证书，旨在最终获得符合联邦标准的网络取证调查应用科学副学士学位。完成副学士学位后，学生将为参加适用于网络取证的行业认证考试做好充分准备，例如AccessData认证审查员。新的Cyber Capstone是一门终极课程，让学生展示他们在所采用的课程和新开发的课程中所学到的跨学科知识和技术技能，并通过与社区合作伙伴的服务学习现场经验来培养21世纪的职业准备能力和公民责任。根据美国评估协会的项目评估标准，计划进行一次广泛的评估，以确保该项目记录其成就，并提高其相对于学生成功和雇主满意度的有效性。

According to the 2015 (ISC)2 global workforce study, the information security workforce shortfall is widening as the demand for security practitioners is dangerously outpacing the current supply. Of the almost 1,400 survey respondents, 62% stated that their organizations have too few information security professionals, which is a 6% increase from their 2013 survey. This shortfall is serious and estimated to reach 1.5 million security practitioners by 2020. This project entitled Cyber Service at Union County College (UCC) in New Jersey is designed to address this critical cybersecurity workforce shortage of the nation. The innovative curricular design focuses on the education of middle skill cyber forensics technicians. Experiential education and service learning are integrated into the curriculum to keep students engaged, to provide critical workforce readiness skills, and to instill a commitment to community service. By incorporating a community-based, service-learning capstone experience into the associate-degree program. Cyber Service is designed to advance a diverse group of students prepared to enter the well-paying industry of cyber forensics as middle-skilled technicians. The project plans for least 35% of students in the program to be identified as belonging to a population traditionally under-represented in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields (e.g., female, African American, and Hispanics). Cyber Service has great potential to serve as a national model for other community colleges. National dissemination of curricular and service-learning materials specifically developed for cyber forensics technicians is planned through the National CyberWatch Center, ATE Central, ATE TV, and the Association for Computing Machinery Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges (ACM CCECC), as well as national cyber education and experiential education conferences. Cyber Service will address the urgent need to increase the pool of skilled cyber forensics technicians to fill high-demand jobs by employers in the northern New Jersey and New York City metropolitan region, and to improve student retention and persistence in the attainment of post-secondary credentials while preparing graduates with 21st century career ready skills. The project will adapt four digital forensics courses from the NSF ATE Advanced Cyberforensics Education (ACE) consortium. Cyber Service will then extend the work of ACE by creating three new courses that complement the consortium courses and by integrating innovative experiential education and service-learning throughout the program courses. The three new courses are 1) cloud computing and mobile device forensics, 2) cyber law and ethics, and 3) service-learning cyber capstone. The expert project team will develop a series of embedded, stackable certificates designed to culminate in an associate of applied science degree in cyber forensics investigations that is mapped to federal standards. Upon completion of the associate degree, students will be well prepared to sit for industry certification exams appropriate to cyber forensics, such the AccessData Certified Examiner. The new Cyber Capstone is a culminating course that allows students to demonstrate their interdisciplinary knowledge and technical skills learned in both the adopted and newly developed courses, as well as to build 21st century career-ready abilities and civic responsibilities through service-learning field experiences with community partners. An extensive evaluation, based on the Program Evaluation Standards of the American Evaluation Association,is planned to ensure that the project documents its achievements and improves it effectiveness relative to student success and employer satisfaction.